‘I’ve Never Earned N40,000 Annually’ as As NOUN Instructor — Obasanjo

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has debunked the report that he receives N40,000 annually as a facilitator at the National Open University of Nigerian (NOUN).

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He stated this in response to a report quoting Professor Abdalla Adamu, Vice Chancellor of Noun, as saying he received N40,000 annually as a supervisor in the school.

A statement issued by Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo’s spokesman, on Wednesday, said the former President’s services to the university were offered free of charge.

According to Obasanjo, he offered the services “pro bono” as contained in the letter he wrote after he was offered part-time appointment at the school as an instructional/tutorial facilitator and project supervisor.

The statement read: “The attention of the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has been drawn to a newspaper report, published on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 with the headline ‘Obasanjo earns N40,000 as NOUN lecturer –VC’.

“Ordinarily, this will have been unnecessary exercise, if it has been the usual shenanigans of the media to sell their newspapers, but, the very clear quotation of the Vice Chancellor, Prof Abdalla Adam on the headline made this clarification imperative and to set the records straight on His Excellency’s engagement with the University.

“In putting the records in right perspective, His Excellency which to draw the attention of the Vice Chancellor to his letter dated 12 April 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 3 of the letter, President 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.’.

“The former President affirmed that he has not received any dime either as salaries or otherwise from the university and not planning for such now or forever, as stated in his letter that the appointment was received with ‘pleasure and duty to give back to others out of what God and NOUN have given me’.

“The publication, which has generated mixed reactions from the general public and calls from far and near on the elder statesman expressing concern, is to say the least, embarrassing, uncharitable, mischievous and in bad taste, with an immediate demand for a retraction and apology from the Office of the Vice Chancellor.”

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