About 30 professors at the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, have intensified interest to contest for the soon to be vacant office of Vice Chancellor of the institution.
According to gist made available to Inside Sources the current Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali,will leave the office when his five-year single term tenure l elapse by October 16
Among those jostling to replace Professor Ambali are the current Deputy Vice Chancellor, Management Services, Professor Adedayo Abdulkareem; former Dean, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Professor Hassan Saliu; Dean, Faculty of Arts, Professor Ahmad Abdulsalam; Professor Adebayo Lawal of Faculty of Arts; former Vice Chancellor, Al-Hikma University, Ilorin who is presently, Director of Laboratory to Product Centre of the university; Professor Sulyam Abdulkareem.
Sources in the Institution disclosed that the powers in the university want the new VC to emerge from outside Ilorin Emirate come October, since Professor Ambali is from Ilorin
