ASUU Strike: Official confirms postponed NEC meeting will hold Today, Friday Nov 22

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 today.

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.