WHO ACTUALLY NEEDS LEGAL DIRECTION?
To finally address all the drama and the rejoinder from the LASUSU Legal director earlier today
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On Tuesday, 14th January 2025, we wrote on how the LASUSU President, Comr. Adebobola Ayomide Joldie, seems to have been acting beyond his constitutionally given powers by doing the duties of the Public Relations Officer (PRO).
This article also contained an interpretation of the provisions of the LASUSU Constitution relevant to the report and in less than 24 hours, the LASUSU Legal Director, Comr. Toheeb Alimi had penned down a response.
At first glance, the 'bread and butter' response may seem as though the Legal Director is acting in his capacity as the Chief Law Officer of the Union and defending the Union's interest.
However, after a much deeper look into his response, it is almost as though the response was written purely out of spite for David Akinwunmi who was quoted in our report.
In his 'rejoinder' to the article written by 'one Ayooluwa Oladiran', the Legal Director expressed his displeasure at Akinwunmi's statement.
In his exact words, "It is quite disheartening that the heart of the publication is, sadly, built on an amateurish and incompetent legal justification by a learned friend - David Akinwunmi, Former SAA President".
It is worthy of mention that the 'heart' of the publication is not Akinwunmi's statement, which is just the complementary butter to the bread, but the Union's President acting out of office. At the same time, Alimi's statement appears as a jab to Akinwunmi as he deemed it fit to place emphasis on the fact that Akinwunmi is a former president while he is a current legal director.
Responding to Alimi's statement, Akinwunmi noted that his 'learning colleague's intention was most likely to tarnish his image by declaring him incompetent.
David further adds that he remains bemused at Alimi’s assertion of his incompetence "especially given his own outright portrayal of incompetence as he cost myself and three other persons the opportunity to represent the University in a competition in Washington, U.S.A. by neglecting his part of his research in the team for over three month".
The same legal director who cost his teammates an opportunity of a lifetime by not sending in his work in due time and still hasn't responded to a request sent by this Editor about 20 days ago, to meet with him over issues regarding his office, found the legal muscle to respond to respond to an alleged 'sour and decaying legal stance' within 24 hours.
This begs the question of who actually needs legal direction?
One Legal Director who neglects certain duties and becomes reactive at the sight of an exposé of incompetence from his office or a reputable law student with past leadership experience of not just sitting in an office but representing this great institution at events locally and internationally?
While we seek answers to these questions, we should not lose sight of the fact that the ever-proactive president has remained mum about the entire issue.
Now, to borrow a leaflet from the legal director's book; UBI Story, UBI LASU Life (Where there's a Story, there's LASU Life).
In all this drama, don’t forget to attend Mr & MISS LASU fresher tomorrow the 16th of January 2024 😁
📝: Ayooluwa Oladiran, Deputy Editor, LASULife 🛫
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