By Farooq Kperogi
I’ve been reliably informed that Pantami has budgeted millions to bribe unprincipled charlatans with the title of “Professor” affixed to their names to defend his fraudfessorship. He’s even reached out to mercenary two-bit diasporan Nigerian professors.
Some of them have already started writing obfuscatory justifications for Pantami’s fraud and others will soon follow. Pay them no heed. Or take note of them because they’re greedy, amoral hustlers who will down in history as defenders of academic fraud for financial gain.
The issue remains that it’s immoral and unconscionable for a serving minister to use money and political influence to coax a university into “appointing” him as a “professor” without performing the job of a professor. It’s irrelevant that Pantami isn’t even minimally qualified for the position.
Being a professor is a job, not a traditional title you give to vain politicians. Let him resign his ministerial position and relocate to FUTO to teach and research. This controversy would die a natural death.
