The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU)
has dismissed report going round the media,
especially social media platforms that it held of
the union’s National Exectuve Council to discuss
the possibility of calling off the strike.
Chairman of the University of Ibadan branch of
the union, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, said the stories of
the meeting in Kano are rumours.
He said in an interview monitored on Diamond
FM, University of Ibadan, that there was no
meeting scheduled by the union for Saturday as
they were still observing seven days of mourning
in honour of the late former national chairman of
the union, Festus Iyayi.
The union was last week scheduled the meeting of
its National Executive Council to hold in Kano,
where they were expected to take a final decision
on whether to continue with their strike or accept
the FG’s offer, but cancelled it when one of their
colleague and a former president of the union
was killed in a car crash by the convoy of the
Governor of Kogi state.
No new date has been fixed for the cancelled
meeting, thus the fate of university students who
have stayed at home for over four months
remains unknown.
