ASUU STURF

From the  LEADERSHIP.According to LEADERSHIP, the crisis between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, UNILAG chapter, and a reported faction of the union, which started on Monday further degenerated on Tuesday, as the two camps engaged in abusive languages, throwing allegations and counter-allegations.
Trouble had reportedly started on Monday when two lecturers in the institution’s Faculty of Arts, Dr. Adeyemi Daramola of the English Department and Dr. Michael Ogbeide of the History Department walked out of the chapter’s congress and called a press conference insisting that lecturers were tired of ASUU’s leadership style of not taking into consideration members’ positions on the five-month-old strike.

The lecturers had alleged that the national secretariat of ASUU had concluded plans to postpone the resumption of the union to January, 2014 as against members’ position nationwide which they claimed directed the NEC to consider President Goodluck Jonathan’s new offer. They therefore insisted that if the strike is not called off this week, the university would be forced to back out.

However, the Chairman of the chapter, Dr. Oghenekaro Ogbinaka, who had previously refused to comment on the matter, issued a press statement accusing the duo of being “misguided, disgruntled and paid Judases. They were hell bent to deliver on the mission of betrayal for which they have been paid.”

“At the Congress Meeting of November 25, 2013 that also had the Ibadan Zone’s leadership -Congress overwhelmingly reaffirmed its commitment and unalloyed support to the leadership of ASUU in its effort to resolve the remaining grey areas in its discussion with the Federal Government of Nigeria," he said.