Abuja(SundiataPost)- While ASUU asks the university undergraduates students to go home due to the strike, another group of lecturers from Obafemi Awolowo University have ask the students to stay on campus for receive lectures.
The ASUU chairman, OAU chapter, Adeola Egbedokun while addressing journalists yesterday, November 6, 2018, maintained that the university would have to join the strike therefore, students of the institution should go home.
He said “The strike is total. No teaching, no exam, no statutory functions. We are not doing anything except observation of the strike.”
“We hereby tell our students that we love them and we don’t want to lose any of them at the cause of anything that may happen during the industrial action.”
However, a group of lecturers under the banner, Congress of Nigerian Universities Academic (CONUA) said they would continue the running of day to day activities in the school.
Niyi Sunmonu, the chairman of CONUA said “We can’t generally be part of what we are not privy to. We were not taken into consideration, we were (not) approached on the issue. So, we can’t be part of the strike. Our members still respect statutory duties”.
An anonymous student of the institution who spoke about the school’s stance on ASUU strike said the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Eyitope Ogunmodede too does not want the university to join ASUU strike. He added that the lecturers under CONUA banners are close to the VC chancellor.
”The ASUU chairman wished all the students a safe journey back home saying he does not want the students to be victims of their actions. But there is another union, Congress of Nigerian Universities Academic (CONUA) they said they are not going on strike that still lectures continue.
CONUA has close to 70 per cent of OAU lecturers and they are also close to the Vice Chancellor of the university and the VC does not want the university to shut down. Now, students are in school, some lectures are holding and some are not”.
Recall that on Sunday, November 4th, 2018, the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi declared an indefinite nationwide strike following the union’s NEC meeting at the Federal University of Technology, Akure.