Prof Cyril Ndifon, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Calabar, has reacted to allegations of harassing female law students sexually.
Several students had staged a protest in the institution, accusing the Dean of frequently harassing them sexually.
They moved about in groups on the campus late Monday afternoon chanting that the Dean must go.
The students displayed placards with various inscriptions.
President of the Law Students Association of Nigeria, LAWSAN, UNICAL branch, Comrade Benedict Otu, led the students in the protest.
But in an interview with CrossRiverWatch, an online platform, the Dean debunked the allegations.
He claimed that the protest by the law students was masterminded by some persons in the faculty who had sworn to pull him down.
Professor Ndifon described the allegations as barefaced lies aimed at tarnishing his image.
He explained that since he defeated some persons in an election that was keenly contested, to emerge as Dean of the faculty, he had skipped several booby traps.
He also explained that the allegations are baselessly masterminded by his detractors, who had vowed to ensure that his image is dragged into the mud just because he won the faculty elections twice.
