Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has denied receiving any amount as a lecturer in the National Open University, NOUN.
Obasanjo made the denial against the claim by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, that he was receiving N40,000 annually as an allowance for being a facilitator of the university.
Denying the allegation, Obasanjo, in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said he also did not plan to receive any amount for the services being rendered.
The statement reads in part: “In putting the records in right perspective, His Excellency wishes to draw the attention of the Vice-Chancellor of NOUN to his letter dated April 12, 2018, which was written to the University Registrar, Mr Felix Edoka, when the Council offered him a part-time appointment as an Instructional/Tutorial Facilitator and Project Supervisor in the Faculty of Arts at the Abeokuta Study Centre.
“Specifically in paragraph three of the letter, Obasanjo wrote, ‘I will gladly undertake any of the functions mentioned in paragraph two of your letter pro bono and I hope that the functions will be flexible enough to accommodate my rather tight schedule.”
