NIGERIA- Following the death of former ASUU President Prof. Iyayi, angry members of the union chased away Governor Idris Wada from the emergency ward of Lokoja General Hospital yesterday, where he went to check an injured member of the body.

It was revealed to CEOAFRICA.com that Mr. Wada went to the hospital to visit Ngozi Ilo and to commiserate with the lecturers over the death of Prof. Iyayi, but the lecturers said the governor did not stop to help the victims of the accident after it occurred.

“We are surprised that a state governor could resort to telling lies because contrary to the claim by his spokesperson that he showed care towards our colleagues, he did not,” said the Chairman of Lagos State University Chapter of ASUU, Adekunle Idris.

“Somebody that did not stop after his convoy killed our leader; somebody that did not come to the hospital until some minutes to 5pm (on Tuesday) after the accident that happened around 11am could not be said to be caring. That was why we chased him out of the emergency ward of the hospital and we also prevented him from seeing Prof. Iyayi’s corpse in the mortuary” he added.

It would be recalled that last Monday, a vehicle in the governor’s convoy ran into a vehicle conveying Mr. Iyayi on the Abuja Lokoja road killing him instantly and injuring Ngozi Ilo and other lecturers travelling with him. The lecturers were on their to Kano to attend an ASUU executive congress believed to have been called to suspend the more than four-month old strike embarked by the union.

CEOAFRICA.com also gathered that the lectures were angry because the governor made his visit a media spectacle.

“We are not happy with the fact that he came very late to the hospital and the fact that when he came, his press crew attempted to take photograph and video record of Dr. Ilo, who is our National Welfare Secretary. We stopped them because that was  the  height of insensitivity.

“Somebody that could not provide us with an ambulance cannot be said to be caring. We had to call UNIBEN for an ambulance that took Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital while our colleagues from the Federal University, Lokoja, with the assistance of the vice-chancellor, gave us the ambulance that was used to convey the remains of Prof. Iyayi to Benin,” Mr. Idris added.

Mr. Idris said after he was asked to leave, the governor left “like a gentleman” but some overzealous security men who came with him tried to be naughty.

“Some of the policemen that followed him to the hospital wanted to be naughty but we lectured them. The hospital workers and the residents of Lokoja who witnessed how we chased the governor  away were happy,” he said.

While narrating the ordeal which took away the life of Iyayi, the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Nassir Adesola said it was the last vehicle of the governor’s convoy that veered off the road and ran into the vehicle conveying ASUU members.

“It was actually the last of the governor’s convoy that veered off the road and ran into a vehicle that was conveying Iyayi and others.

“When the governor’s convoy came with   noise and harassment, everyone on the road moved  to the side  of the road for them to pass  but  unfortunately, the governor’s aide  has told the world that an  ASUU  vehicle was avoiding a trailer and ran into  their escort vehicle.

“What manner of reckless lying is that? The front of the ASUU bus remains intact except for the windscreen that broke. Iyayi was sitting at the back of the bus and the escort van ran into it.”