University of Ibadan Crisis

University of Ibadan was hot today, when I say hot I mean hot.

Election process

Today Is the University of Ibadan students union (UISU) election.

Different bodies have been campaigning for the fast few weeks.

For the post of UISU president, There were just two contestants Mascot and Richard.

These two parties are like APC and PDP. They both claimed they have the qualities of being the president.

Election crisis

Election Timeline: 8:00am - 3:00pm

Mode of election: Online

Only accredited voters can vote. We were accredited by filling an online form before the election.

Today an email was sent to the accredited voters. In the mail was a personal User ID, password and voting link.

We were to register through the link sent to our mail by imputing the User Id and password.

To my surprise I heard students email were being hacked. Some set of people decided to rig the election. Majority of the students began to voice out that they were not able to vote, but they received confirmation email that they have voted, without their consent.

Those that got their mail hacked were asked to rush down to the Senate chamber to re-vote legally.

Corruption in a tertiary institution. Like the saying goes " A horse follows the one before him in a race". Naija citizens can relate to what I'm talking about here.

This night the results of the election cane out.

SU Presidential election results

• Mascot- 2128. ✔️

• Richard- 1255

• Richard- 148

Therefore S.U electoral committee declared Mascot as the winner.

MTN Network issue

Earlier this morning MTN users received an SMS staying

Sunday's promises to be exciting on the MTN Network. Charge your phones and get ready!

I was happy when I saw the SMS, and I was looking forward to seeing what the surprise is.

Around 2:00pm today most of the MTN users began to have network issues. Either it is on Emergency call or no service.

I had an online test from 6:00pm to 6:10pm.

The link of the online test didn't go through not until 6:08pm (2 minutes to the closing of the test link). I quickly filled out the required places and chose the answers as fast as I could. I submitted at exactly 6:10pm.

A test that was supposed to be for 10 minutes was done in 2 minutes. It was after I posted of the MTN network issue on WhatsApp I realized I wasn't the only one affected. Some were not able to do the test at all.

The crisis of the rigged election and MTN network issue was the talk of the campus.

But thank God MTN network is back, and it is working well. We hope they compensate us with the surprise tomorrow.

Thanks for reading 🙏❤️