‘Reinstate illegally dissolved council’ — ASUU rejects new tertiary institutions’ governing board

• ASUU had on Tuesday issued a two-week ultimatum within which it demanded the government to do the needful.
• Recall that ASUU threatened to embark on a strike over the government’s refusal to reconstitute the governing councils.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the federal government to reinstate the “illegally” dissolved governing councils of tertiary institutions.

Recall that the federal government had on Saturday reconstituted the governing councils at public tertiary institutions

The re-constitution of governing councils came after 11 months of repeated calls from education stakeholders.

It included 111 tertiary institutions comprising of universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.

Reacting on Sunday, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, said the federal government was expected to reinstate the “illegally” dissolved governing councils and not to constitute new ones.

Osodeke also stated that the demand from the union was not only about the dissolved governing councils of tertiary institutions, adding that the federal government should implement other requests of ASUU.

“It is not just about the governing council alone, it is just one of them. Secondly, we said they should reinstate the illegally dissolved governing council. We didn’t say they should constitute a new one. As far as we are concerned, they have not met any,” Osodeke said.