ASUU, Ondo varsity on collision course over resumption order

THE striking members of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba-Akoko chapter, Ondo State and
the university authorities are on a collision
course over a directive that the students should
resume for lectures.
Gates to the nation's public universities have been
shut in the last 144 days due to trade dispute between
ASUU and the Federal Government Registrar of the
state-owned university, R. B. Olotu in a statement in
Akure directed the students to
resume on Monday, November 25 for the second
semester 2012/2013 session. But in a swift reaction,
the ASUU Chapter of the
university dissociated itself from the purported
resumption of academic activities in the university.
The Chapter's chairperson, Busuyi Mekusi in a
statement asked members to disregard the directive.
Mekusi said: "ASUU Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba Akoko Branch, wishes to dissociate itself
from the purported resumption of academic
activities in the university, as its members are still
part of the ongoing national strike by the union.
"Members should, therefore, disregard any pull to
abandon the struggle, and be steadfast until the
present position is reviewed by NEC.
" The union also wants to make it abundantly clear
that it would resist every tyrannical propensity to
intimidate and harass its members." The Registrar in
his statement entitled: 'Resumption
for the 2nd semester 2012/2013 session' directed all
the students of university to resume.
"All the students of Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, are hereby informed
that academic activities of the second semester of
2012/2013 session truncated as a result of the ASUU
national strike are to resume on Monday, 25th
November, 2013 with the continuation of registration
on the University portal (http://portal.aaua.edu.ng).
"Lectures are to start on Monday, 2nd December,
2013."
It will be recalled that the Vice Chancellor of the
University Prof. Femi Mimiko had about a month
ago expressed worries over the continued closure of
the university by Ondo State. Prof. Mimiko
threatened that he would recall the students if the
four month old strike action was not
suspended.