Former Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly and Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of Tayo Akpata University of Education, Thomas Okosun, has resigned from the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

His resignation as chairman of the council changed into made recognized in a letter to Governor Obaseki.

The letter through Okosun, an best friend of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole, is seemed as political amid the rumoured no lost love between the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Obaseki.

Stating reasons for his resignation, Okosun lamented alleged neglect of the university.

He said his choice become to allow him to recognition on other “very important private topics for now as the university, sadly, has not taken off as in advance envisaged”.

“Let me use this possibility to thank Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who offered me the appointment and your humble self for allowing me to maintain in workplace because you assumed office on November 12, 2016.”

Oshiomhole had upgraded the then College of Education to a university.

But the institution has now not started sports given that Obaseki became governor.