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The members of Adekunle Ajasin University Branch of ASUU have cautioned the branch Chairperson, Dr. Sola Fayose against using ASUU to feather his political agenda.

The call became necessary when the branch chairperson single handedly wrote a petition against the Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko without permission from the Congress.

The petition dated 14th April which was also made available to newspapers was not discussed at the floor of the Congress. According to Dr Ologundudu who spoke on behalf of concerned members, "this is a gross violation of the tradition which ASUU is known for."

On several occasions, the Congress has been turned to campaign ground of political gladiators who are eyeing political appointment without Dr Fayose's calling them to order.

A particular professor from the chairperson's home town said on the floor of the Congress that the Vice Chancellor of the branch would be sent packing within 76 days after his party must t have won the election.

Now that election has been won, it appears the petition single handedly written by the branch chairperson is a confirmation of what his kinsman said. We have information that the Professor is lobbying to become Vice Chancellor by appointment. Should ASUU chairperson support illegality? Not at all! Sadly, this is the agenda our chairperson is pursuing.

Adekunle Ajasin University has a sad history of instability which ASUU as a reputable and responsible union should be worried about. In 2016, academic activities were shut down for almost six months.

The academic calendar that was supposed to have ended by September, 2016 was completed in February 2017. Now that all stake holders are making efforts to rectify the anomaly, the branch chairperson person is busy orchestrating the plan of himself and his paymasters.

We are also informed that he wants to be Commissioner for Science and Technology under the new government. He doesn't believe he could get the position by his own merit.This is unfortunate!

The branch chairperson has recruited young and unsuspecting lecturers who turned ASUU Congress to NURTW assembly. They sometimes shout "up National" during congress. This is not funny!

Rigorous and logical debate which is the hallmark of academic discussion has suddenly taken a flight out of the AAUA branch of ASUU.

The chairperson conducts debate by Pontiff Pilate . Serious issues like promotion, salary and earned allowance were turned to questions which are asked from already biased assemblage of hired unsuspecting lecturers.

Interrogatives like "Do you want to collect your salary?" "Are you saying we should go on strike?" are deployed to stealthily coerce the silent majority into their game plan.

The usual answer from the supposed Congress is a ready made chorus of "Yes" . This is what is processed to the National Executive Council for approval. Sometimes, the chairperson would have sent an advance decision extract to the public before calling the Congress for approval.

This antic was exposed sometime last year when few courageous members spoke convincingly on the floor of the Congress against the "Yes" method.

The decision extract they sent to the WhatsApp page was different from the decision reached on the floor of the Congress. When Dr Fayose was queried, he was clever to apologise.

Other method the chairperson uses is to use his attacking "Alsatians" to insult respectable members of the Congress who hold different opinions. These members include Prof Daramola and Prof Duyilemi among others. When the attack is going on, our chairperson usually keeps quiet.

Apart from this, Dr Fayose is found of causing disaffection among members of ASUU. For example, he openly campaigned for his kinsmen during elections into the office of the Dean to Postgraduate School and congregation representative to the University's Council.

He branded his kinsmen "ASUU candidates" whereas, there was never a time the executive or Congress met to choose a candidate. One of the branded kinsmen was an unrepentant ASUU enemy right from Ado Ekiti. Now that he shares the same ethnic background with our chairperson, he is ASUU candidate.

It is important to mention that Dr Fayose's IPP, is his younger brother from Ijare-Akure, Dr Busuyi Mekusi. He too nearly destroyed the union when he wanted to use his position as Chairperson ASUU, Adekunle Ajasin University Branch to secure political appointment from the former Governor of Ondo state.

He was the secretary of a group of professionals called CENPIP. The former Vice Chancellor, Professor Femi Mimiko was the chairman. Dr Busuyi became ASUU AAUA chairperson on 7th May,2010. He was at the same time negotiating for the position of Commissioner for Education. Professor Mimiko, an experienced ASUU leader , refused to support this inordinate ambition, as it would have spelt doom for AAUA branch of the union.

He was blackmailed and the unsuspecting Congress men were used to fight a selfish battle under the pretence of ASUU strike. Thanks to Profs. Dipo Fashina, Oloruntoba Oju, Sule Kano, Biodun Ogunyemi among others who cleverly rescued us.

We are again moving to " Golgotha ". The National President should rescue ASUU AAUA branch from foxes pretending to be noble.


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