No fewer than 49 Higher National Diploma final-year students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic are on the verge of expulsion following a result verification process that exposed the alleged use of fake National Diploma results.

TheNigerian Metro learnt on Thursday from a result verification update released by the polytechnic that the students had allegedly presented fake ND results while seeking admission into the HND programmes of the institution.

In a two-batch result verification list released by the polytechnic, the affected students cut across Mass Communication, Pharmaceutical Technology, Marketing, Science Laboratory Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Accountancy among others.

Some of the fake results were reportedly obtained from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa and Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, Oyo State.

The institution had on Monday announced the indefinite closure of the polytechnic over a planned protest by the students.

Speaking with our correspondent on Thursday, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, ‘yemi Ajibola, noted that the verification was part of the institution’s process of authenticating documents submitted by admitted students.

Ajibola noted that the delay in the release of results was occasioned by the verification process, and after due diligence, the affected students were found to have submitted fake ND results.

He said, “We have our internal mechanisms for verifying results submitted by every student of the polytechnic. Some of the results had yet to be verified because the schools they came from had yet to confirm their results, while some of the results were found to be fake.

“We had a backlog of results to verify because of some administrative issue which necessitated the delay, and we are working on getting them resolved as soon as possible.”

He added that the students with fake results would not be immediately expelled but would be allowed to come and defend the results before final action was taken.

“They will not be expelled immediately. The institution will write each of the affected students to come and defend the result they presented, and in a circumstance where we detect an error in the verification process, we will rectify it.

“However, anyone who could not substantiate his/her results will be expelled,” Ajibola said.

The TheNigerian reported on Thursday that the Ogun State Government and the students of MAPOLY disagreed over an alleged attack by the students on the state’s Deputy Governor, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele.

While the government claimed that the deputy governor narrowly escaped an attack by the protesting students, the students, on the other hand, alleged that the deputy governor’s security detail fired shots at them during a confrontation.

Ogun State Government and the students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, on Wednesday, disagreed over an alleged attack by the students on the state’s  Deputy Governor, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele.

While the government claimed that the deputy governor narrowly escaped an attack by the protesting students, the students, on the other hand, alleged that the deputy governor’s security detail fired shots at them during a confrontation.

The Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, disclosed in a statement that the deputy governor was on her way to represent the governor at the reception marking the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day at the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, when the incident occurred at OPIC, Oke Ilewo.

 Akinmade said, “The irate protesting MAPOLY students were armed with sticks and other dangerous projectiles. All efforts to allow the convoy pass proved abortive as immediately the students realised it was the Deputy Governor, they became even more restive and rushed to attack her convoy with the aim of demobilising it, despite her security operatives as well as other police officers on the ground persuading them to stay calm and allow the convoy pass.”

He added that the deputy governor decided to make a detour to her lodge to avoid escalating tensions.

However, he said, “Noteworthy is that there was obstruction of vehicular movement, while some of her security vehicles were damaged, and her security operatives were also hurt in the process of maintaining law and order, contrary to the news making rounds in the press.”

But the students presented a different version of events.

Speaking to journalists, the Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students  in Ogun State,  Francis Adeyanju, accused the deputy governor’s security team of firing shots at the protesting students.

Adeyanju said, “While we were around OPIC, Oke Ilewo, we saw the deputy governor’s convoy. We even thought that it was the governor who had sent her to address us, but we were wrong. This woman’s entourage intimidated us, the Nigerian students.

“They shot at us three times, and that’s why, by tomorrow, the marathon protest will continue.”

The students are protesting against an alleged hike in tuition fees and the delay in mobilising MAPOLY graduates for the National Youth Service Corps.

Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele on Wednesday escaped being attacked when her convoy ran into the procession of students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) who were protesting the school fees hike by management of the institution in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Salako-Oyedele’s convoy, which was on its way to 35 Artillery Brigade Alamala, Abeokuta to represent Governor Dapo Abiodun at the reception marking the year 2025 edition of the Armed Forces Remembrance day celebrations ran into the protesting students at the Oke-Ilewo axis of Abeokuta metropolis, close to the State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

Armed with placards bearing different instructions, the protesting MAPOLY students had trooped to the streets of Abeokuta chanting different “aluta” choruses that decrying the school management’s policy that led to hike in school fees by 150 percent.

The students were also protesting non-release of their Higher National Diploma (HND) final year results, which they claimed denied them from being mobilised for the one year compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) service.

The protest, which entered its 3rd day however, brought vehicular movement to a total halt at the Iwe Irohin axis as students shunned the plea from the Police led by the Metro Area Commander, Zone II.

On sighting the protesting MAPOLY students however, the deputy governor’s convoy hurriedly made a detour to avoid being caught up by the protesters who were advancing towards her convoy from the opposite direction.

Notwithstanding, the protesting students still caught up with Salako-Oyedele’s convoy, compelling her security details to fire several shots into the air to enable them escape with their principal from danger.

Reacting to the shooting, the Special Adviser to Governor Abiodun on Media and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade said the irate MAPOLY students were armed with sticks and other dangerous objects during the protest.

“All efforts to allow the convoy pass proved abortive as immediately the students realised it was the Deputy Governor, they became even more restive and rushed to attack her convoy with the aim of demobilising it, despite her security operatives as well as other police officers on grounds persuading them to stay calm and allow the convoy to pass.

“This informed her convoy’s decision to make an immediate detour to her lodge for the protesting students to pass peacefully before she left for the function she was slated to attend.

“Noteworthy is that there was obstruction of vehicular movement, while some of her security vehicles were damaged and her security operatives were also hurt in the process of maintaining law and order contrary to the news making rounds in the press,” Akinmade said.

But in his reaction, chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) in the state, Comrade Adeyanju Francis said there was no confrontational attack on the deputy governor’s convoy.

Adeyanju explained that the students assembled themselves when they saw the convoy of the Deputy Governor, thinking that she was coming to address them on the matter.

He also disclosed that there were six Divisional Police Officers (DPOs), including a deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations present with the students during the peaceful protest.