The ASUU strike 2013 continues, but the latest
update is a good one. A union official has
confirmed that the postponed National Executive
Council meeting–which was postponed after the
sudden death of Festus Iyayi–is slated to be held
on Friday. At the meeting, it is expected that the union will
call off the months long strike. Dr. Lawan Abubakar, the chairman of the ASUU
branch at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University,
Bauchi told the Daily Post that the rumor is true:
the union will hold the council meeting on Friday. The union leadership and President Goodluck
Jonathan’s team met two weeks ago and there
was optimism all around afterward. The
leadership took the federal government’s offer to
the union branch leaders, who then voted at each
school across the country regarding whether to continue the strike or not. The clear majority
voted to end the strike. That set up the NEC meeting, which was originally
supposed to be held on November 13. If the
union had voted to end the strike, then a meeting
was planned with Jonathan the next day to
finalize the move. But on November 12 the sudden death of Iyayi, a
former ASUU president, shocked the union,
prompting leadership to call a 7-day mourning
period, and throwing into question any ending of
the strike. Now the union will meet on Friday, and likely vote
to end the strike.
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