Over 200 students of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, have sued the university, its vice-chancellor, the registrar and President Bola Tinubu over their removal from the Faculty of Law and transfer to their former faculties and departments.
The students, numbering 214, filed the suit on 12 August at the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding N5 billion in damages.
In the suit, they argued that their admission letters, payment of prescribed fees, course registration, examinations and JAMB regularisation created “valid, binding, and subsisting legal contracts” between them and the university.
They also argued that Vice-Chancellor Offiong Offiong, could not invalidate “the official acts, admissions, JAMB regularisation approvals, and institutional commitments made by his predecessor-in-office to the detriment of the Claimants.”
The controversy began this month after the University of Calabar had directed 214 second-year Law students to return to the departments where they were originally admitted into by the institution.
