UniAbuja ASUU divided over strike

Members of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, are not connected the aforesaid leafage implicit the indefinite onslaught announced by the union.

It was gathered that aft the declaration of the onslaught connected Thursday, lecturers nether the “Anti-strike ASUU Members” dissociated themselves.

DAILY POST recalls that the Abuja section of ASUU announced its determination to embark connected the onslaught connected Thursday astatine the extremity of its congress, held astatine the Permanent Site of the institution.

While addressing a property league instantly aft the onslaught declaration, the Anti-strike ASUU members said they won’t beryllium portion of it.

The dean and erstwhile convener of ASUU National Political Committee, Abubakar Kari, and the ex-Nigerian ambassador to Japan and caput of section (HOD), Agriculture Engineering, Prof. M. Y. Gana, said the cabal dictating to Dr. Sylvanus-led section ASUU, desperately wanted a onslaught to fulfill their involvement but ne'er the larger involvement of ASUU members and the University of Abuja.

Kari said, “Members of ASUU here, lasting for respective different members with similar minds but unavoidably absent emergence to reassure students, parents, and members of the nationalist that we volition support the sanctity of the University of Abuja robust world calendar and proceed to enactment for the continuous opening of the assemblage operations.

“We vehemently request that ASUU indispensable enactment for ASUU and not a hidden cabal who are retired to instrumentality the assemblage backmost to the inglorious pasts. A determination to spell connected an indefinite onslaught without astatine immoderate constituent seeking members of ASUU’s ballot for, oregon against is not the ASUU process for calling a strike.

“So, the alleged onslaught remains unrepresentative of the larger members of ASUU and cannot stand,” helium said.