ASUU strike: Official confirms postponed NEC meeting will hold Friday

The Chairman of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
University, Bauchi, Dr Lawan
Abubakar has debunked media
reports that the union had postponed its National Executive
Committee, NEC, meeting slated
for tomorrow. He restated that the leadership of
the Union postponed the scheduled
NEC meeting at Bayero University,
Kano, following the demise of
Festus Iyayi, a former President,
who died last Tuesday in a motor accident along the Abuja-Lokoja
highway. A car in the convoy of Kogi State
Governor, Idris Wada, had hit the
vehicle conveying the deceased and
some ASUU members, leading to
Iyayi’s death. Others injured are
presently receiving treatment. Abubakar who spoke in Bauchi
further denied that the striking
lecturers had accepted the over
N1trillion offered by the Federal
Government. “There is no iota of truth in that.
What the union is agitating for is
the full implementation of the
2009 agreement and nothing less,”
he said. The Union has been on strike since
July 1 over the 2009 agreement it
reached with the Federal
Government. Its leadership has said it will
deliberate on the current Federal
Government’s offer and take a
position after Friday’s NEC
meeting.