Osodeke Says FG Eyeing ASUU’s Assets

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has declared that every attempt made by the Federal Government or its agents to ban the union will fail.

Osodeke stated this while speaking at the special commemorative programme organised by the ASUU chapter at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye in Ogun State to honour a former vice-chancellor of the institution, Prof Ganiyu Olatunde, who was succeeded by a pathologist, Prof Deji Agboola.

The ASUU president accused the Federal Government of being envious of ASUU’s achievements at setting qualitative and enduring standards in the areas of infrastructural provisions and services compared to what the government had done, despite the sufficient fund at its disposal.

According to him, ASUU’s philosophy was premised on aligning with a worthy cause for the progress of the country’s educational sector and its positive multiplier effects on every other area of the nation.

He said, “I can see why (the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris) Ngige is interested in banning ASUU because once ASUU is proscribed, all the union’s assets automatically become the Federal Government’s property, even when the government is bereft of ideas to put in place, qualitative assets amid sufficient funds at its disposal as done at the University of Ibadan, UNIPORT, and the University of Maiduguri, among other places.

“You will never succeed in banning ASUU because ours is a union that assesses the system and aligns with the worthy course without being biased for the progress of the Nigerian educational society.”

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