THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised fresh posers over the recent Federal Government reconstitution of the Governing Councils of its 111 tertiary institutions, including universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across the country, following its two-week ultimatum to the government to address its key concerns, including the illegal dissolution of Governing Councils of the universities, continued payment of its members’ salaries using the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), among other issues.
Rather than applauded the government for heeding its call, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the Federal Government was expected to reinstate the “illegally” dissolved Councils and not to constitute new ones, adding that the union’s demand was not only about the dissolved Councils, but also that the Federal Government should implement its other requests.
But Osodeke said: “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 councils; we didn’t say they should constitute a new one.
“As far as we are concerned, they have not met any.”
