Following the statement
issued on Wednesday by
the management of
Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba-Akoko [AAUA], in
Ondo State, ordering
students and lecturers to
resume on November 25,
the Academic Staff Union
of Universities [ASSU] of
the institution, today
dissociated itself from the
purported resumption.
It would be recalled that
the Authorities of the
institution, through its
Registrar, R.B Olotu said
the AAUA has pulled out of
the ongoing ASUU strike,
adding that students are
expected to resume for
the second term next
Monday.
But in a statement issued
by the state chairman of
AAUA’s ASUU, Dr. Busuyi
Mekusi, he insisted that his
members were still part of
the ongoing national
strike.
He urged ASUU members
to disregard the circular
calling for resumption,
stressing that the
University Chapter of ASUU
was in support of the
action of its national body.
The statement reads, “We,
the executives of ASUU,
AAUA chapter, wish to
dissociate ourselves from
the purported resumption
of academic activities in
the university, as its
members are still part of
the ongoing national
strike by the Union.
“Members should
therefore, disregard any
pullout to abandon the
struggle, and be steadfast
until the present position
is reviewed by NEC. The
Union also wants to make
it abundantly clear that it
would resist every
tyrannical propensity to
intimidate and harass its
members”.