Prof. James Ayatse was sued alongside the FCC and the university.
The plaintiffs, Muhammad Mansur Aliyu and Umar Kabir Darma, both legal practitioners, allege lopsidedness in the recruitment process of the university.
They are seeking an order compelling the FCC to arrest and criminally prosecute the Vice Chancellor for allegedly violating its Act. They are equally asking the court to declare that recruitments made by the university since its establishment are unconstitutional, null and void.
They similarly want a declaration that the favour and priority given to Benue state indigenes is bias, malicious, mischievous, illegal, and null and void.
The duo accused the Vice chancellor, an indigene of Benue state, of favouring his kinsmen in the recruitment of both senior and junior staff at the university without complying with the federal character principle.