Majority of ASUU vote NO to suspend strike

The hope that the four month old
strike by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, may be
called off this week, following
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
intervention last week, may be
dashed as the 61 chapters of the
union are divided over the move to
call off the strike.
President Jonathan held a meeting
with the leadership of ASUU last
week, where he made some offers
which ASUU was expected to take
to their members for deliberation
with the hope that it will pacify
them into resuming academic
activities this week.
Congresses of the 61 chapters of
the union were therefore held,
yesterday, while the National
Executive Council, NEC, meeting
will hold tomorrow in one of the
northern universities.
The outcome of the union’s
congresses indicated that there was
disagreement on the need to call off
the strike.
Vanguard gathered that while some
ASUU chapters were ready to
suspend the strike in the light of
the President’s intervention, others
insisted that they will continue the
strike due to what they described
as their distrust for the
government.
It was learnt that while the
University of Lagos, UNILAG,
resolved to suspend the strike,
chapters like the University of
Ibadan, UI; University of Benin,
UNIBEN; University of Calabar,
UNICAL; University of Jos, UNIJOS
and the Lagos State University,
LASU, said the strike must
continue, arguing that the Federal
Government could not be trusted to
fulfil its promise of injecting over
N1.1 trillion to universities in the
next five years.
Voting at UNIJOS
Members UNIJOS chapter,
yesterday, voted overwhelmingly
for the strike to continue.
After receiving briefings on what
transpired at last week’s meeting of
the union’s representatives with
President Goodluck Jonathan and
after going through copies of the
resolution of the meeting, 194
members voted for the strike to
continue while 80 voted for a
suspension.
source vanguardngr

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