Contrary to media reports that the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU was to hold it’s National Executives
Committee meeting yesterday, the union leader of university of Ibadan, Dr.
Olusegun Ajiboye has claimed that there was no plan for such meeting.
Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye claimed that
stories which made the rounds on Saturday, that the National Executive Council,
NEC, would hold an emergency meeting in Kano, were false.
Ajiboye was speaking in an interview
on Diamond FM, University of Ibadan, UI and stated that no
meeting was scheduled for yesterday, as they were still in the middle of a
seven-day morning, which was declared in honour of the late Professor Festus
Iyayi, a former national chairman of the Union.
It would be recalled that Iyayi lost
his life in a fatal crash, on his way to Bayero University, Kano, BUK, where members of ASUU were to meet and reach a final decision, on
whether to continue with the strike or accept the federal government’s offer.
It is hoped that at the expiration
of the 7days mourning of Iyayi, the union will reconvene to ratify decision on
the lingering strike that has paralysed the academic activities of public Universities in the country.
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