EDUCATION

Pressure On Varsity To Sack Lecturer Involved In Electoral Fraud

<h4>Pressure On Varsity To Sack Lecturer</h4>&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//openlife&period;ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a> has learned that the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has been asked to terminate the services of a Computer Science lecturer, Dr&period; Nnaemeka Ogbene, allegedly involved in election manipulation scandal in Enugu State&period;&NewLine;The Executive Director, Odera Foundation, Oluwakemi Roland, who made the call in a statement on Monday in Enugu, said the university authorities must act quickly to preserve integrity of the academia, as well as protect vulnerable students&period;&NewLine;Roland, who said her organisation is scandalised by what she described as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;flagrant abuse of electoral processes” during the recently concluded governorship election in the state, wondered how a university lecturer would be allegedly involved in the manipulation of results with such impunity, and still be allowed to return to teach students&period;&NewLine;It would be recalled that Dr&period; Nnaemeka Ogbene, the Returning Officer for Nkanu East Local Government Area had after the March 18 Governorship elections, turned in a result that has numbed statisticians all over the world&period; &NewLine;In the LGA, where, in his own words, there were just above 6,000 accredited voters, Dr&period; Ogbene’s computer wizardry was able to conjure more than 32,000 votes&period;&NewLine;In the evaluation of public affairs analysts, Ogbene was a carefully selected willing participant, in the grand scheme of electoral stealing planned and perfected long before the election&period;&NewLine;The call for his sack may have ignited regret in his inner recess on account of the realization of how it is very likely to haunt his future as a young academic and researcher&NewLine;

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