The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, on Saturday, expressed disappointment with the Federal Government for not giving consideration to private universities in the plan to reopen schools that were shut in March due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Babalola, who said both private and public universities had been left out by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in its daily briefings, made the assertion in a goodwill message at a Zoom Meeting of the Pro Chancellors of Private Universities in Nigeria on Saturday.

In the message made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the ABUAD founder recommended that “private universities should be given the first consideration for resumption”.