Former Upper East Regional Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Ayinbisa, has waded into the ongoing leadership crisis at the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU), calling on the Governing Council Chairman to stop the political interference in the institution.
His comment comes after the reinstated Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Erasmus Alnaa, and two senior officers were allegedly denied access to their offices on Monday, October 19, 2026, despite a Bolgatanga High Court order reinstating them.
The High Court had quashed the Council’s decision to remove the three officers, ruling that the Council lacked quorum and that its Special Investigative Committee was illegally constituted. Speaking on A1 Radio Mr. Ayinbisa accused the Council of sabotaging the Vice-Chancellor for political reasons.
“I want to call on the Council Chairman of BTU to really look at the kind of things they are doing in that university. He’s a respected man, but he’s put himself in a corner that is likely to lose that reputation, that respect that people have for him. They should put their political lenses outside and do the real work. The political interference is becoming too much in that university,” he said.
Mr. Ayinbisa said many people suffered to bring the then Polytechnic to its current Technical University status and the current Council should not drag it backwards. “There was a time where Mr. Ajene, who suffered to bring this polytechnic to life, people described the polytechnic as a vehicle and Ajene alone. People suffered to bring the polytechnic to where it is today. They shouldn’t come and bring us back,” he stated.
According to him, most Council members are sabotaging Prof. Alnaa because they perceive him to belong to a political party other than the NDC. “What they are doing, the Council members, most of them are sabotaging this young man because of politics. They perceive him to be a party person other than the NDC party. Everybody in that university cannot be an NDC person. They have to stop that,” he added. He questioned why the university would physically prevent the Vice-Chancellor from accessing his office after a court had ordered his reinstatement.
“Allow the state institutions to do their work. Why do you interfere? The man took the matter to court. The court said he should go back and continue his work. Why are you physically preventing the man from accessing his office and to work? You are bringing the name of the university into disrepute,” Mr. Ayinbisa fumed.
“People who sit there, you have it today. You don’t have it forever. You are Governing Council members today. You will not be Governing Council members forever. The interest of the polytechnic should override your personal political interests.”
He however noted that, some members of the Council are decent people but urged them to move away from politicizing every issue in the university.
Source: Bolgafmonline.com| 102.7 MHz| David Azure | Bolgatanga
