Obasanjo denies collecting N40, 000 yearly as NOUN lecturer

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday denied collecting N40, 000 yearly as a facilitator at the National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN).

Obasanjo was responding to a newspaper report attributed to NOUN’s Vice –Chancellor  Prof. Abdalla Adamu that the university pays him N40, 000 annually as one of its facilitators.

But Obasanjo, in a statement signed by his  Spokesperson Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abuja yesterday, stated that his service at the university was free and without charges.

The former President stated that he has not received any money either as salaries or otherwise from the university and not planning to do so now or in the future.

Chief Obasanjo described the report as “embarrassing, uncharitable, mischievous and in bad taste.”

The statement reads: “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.