Students of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Calabar (UNICAL), affected by the over-admission crisis rocking the institution, have threatened to drag the university authorities to court over what they term admission fraud.

The students made the threat while speaking with The Guardian during a protest at the Metropolitan Hotel Calabar, venue for the South-South Zonal Constitutional Review hearing in Calabar on Saturday.

The students, dressed in their white laboratory coats and carrying placards hours before the scheduled 10:00 a.m. event, hoping their message would reach federal lawmakers and other stakeholders who gathered for the constitutional dialogue, warned that if no amicable solution is reached to address the problem, they will be forced to seek legal action.

Carrying placards with urgent pleas like “Induct Our Doctors,” “Save Dentistry in UNICAL,” “No Transfer, Increase Quota,” and “We Chose Dentistry, Not Related Courses,” the students said they want a resolution that allows them to continue and complete their studies without the threat of reassignment or academic erasure.

“We just want to graduate as dentists. Transferring us or changing our courses is not an option. We were admitted to study Dentistry and that’s what we intend to complete,” one of the students said, requesting anonymity due to fear of reprisal.