Lecturer Writes Buhari, Renounces Nigerian Citizenship

A “suicidal” Nigerian lecturer, Victor Koreyo, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, renouncing his citizenship of the country to end his alleged eight years of frustration.

Koreyo, who is a lecturer at the Department of Ceramics and Glass Technology at the Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Afikpo, Ebonyi State, seeks to relinquish his citizenship of Nigeria over the alleged frustration of his constitutional rights to social justice by the Rector of the polytechnic.

In the letter, the lecturer expressed his love for the nation but said his maltreatment by the said Rector informed his decision to renounce his Nigerian citizenship.

Koreyo said for eight years, he was demoted by the institution’s management and has been denied access to staff development prospects due to “ethnic politics”.

His open letter to Buhari reads partly, “I love to continue as a citizen of this great nation on earth. But since I do not have the financial power or connection to challenge the rector to obey the federal government’s directives in my favour, I decided to take this peaceful action.

“I believe this peaceful action and step of honour will prevent the rector from killing me by premeditated frustration of my constitutional rights to social justice as the citizen of Nigeria. I have nursed this feeling of suicide to end these eight years of frustration by the rector and officials of the Akanu Ibiam polytechnic division of tertiary education department of the federal ministry of education.

“And I have decided the renunciation of my citizenship by birth will be the best way to peacefully end my quest for social justice at the ministry of education and finally resign from federal public service of Nigeria.”