A group at the Federal
University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, operating under the auspices of
Concerned Academic Staff Academic Staff Union of Universities (CASUU), has
stated that its members are ready to resist unnecessary politicisation and
unhealthy rivalry in the union to prevent it from being ruined by power
seekers.
This was as the FUOYE chapter of
the union has now been split into four groups due to high-wired politics among
contending forces namely: Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) headed by
Dr. Akinyemi Omonijo, Congress of Nigeria Academics (CNA) , CASUU and New
Academic Staff Union of FUOYE (NASUF).
ASUU, FUOYE chapter, has been
embroiled in crisis triggered by the anti-management stance maintained by the
Omonijo-led ASUU which didn’t please some members.
A couple of weeks ago, CNA was
inaugurated in the university due to the existing cracks among members.
Addressing journalists in Ado
Ekiti on Thursday, the CASUU members, which spoke through its Chairman, Prof
Sola Omotola and spokesman, Dr. Wasiu Oyedokun-Ali, accused ASUU, Akure Zone of
fuelling factional crisis in the university.
Oyedokun, who read the text of
the speech delivered by embattled members, said it was wrong for the ASUU
Chairman, Akure Zone, Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu to have taken side initially when
the bedlam started to brew before it festered to this level when no fruitful
mediation was made.
The group said they decided to
take the bull by the horn to rescue the union from those who have decided to
run it like a ‘cult’.
He debunked allegations of
illegal promotions, mismanagement of funds and gross incompetence, among other
grievous accusations levelled by the Omonijo-led ASUU against the Vice
Chancellor of the university, Prof Kayode Soremekun, describing them as
baseless and unfounded.
Oyedokun said: “Our members felt
the problem was not really about ASUU, it is about one man, Dr. Omonijo. To us,
impeaching him have been the only option through which we can progress and that
was where we stand.
“The Congress under the ASUU had
earlier met in October where they resolved that Dr. Omonijo must be removed .
The motion was moved and resolution taken to this effect but efforts to realize
this has been sabotaged by Zonal ASUU under Prof Olu-Olu, because he stalled the
letter we sent to ASUU National Executive Committee.
“Despite this, we insist that the
Congress is supreme and we decided to assert its supremacy and we proceed with
the impeachment and on
that we stand.
“Our focus is to rescue ASUU and
make it functional again because over 50 of our members had withdrawn financial
contributions to ASUU. The union seems factionalised and it needs urgent rescue
mission.
“Though, politics has crept to
all strata of our society but we won’t allow unnecessary politicization of
ASUU, because it is a credible academic and pressure group”, he stated.
Olu-Olu had, while addressing
pressmen, said his allegations that Prof Soremekun has been acting like emperor
was real, while also dispelling the insinuation that he was igniting crisis in
the university by hobnobbing and protecting Omonijo.
The Professor of Physics said
ASUU would stop at nothing to restore normalcy in the university by putting the
management on its toes.
“The Zonal ASUU is not interested
in causing tension or crisis in FUOYE, we are here to restore the real academic
culture. How can someone who is not a PhD holder be promoted a professor? Why
must you asked students to pay money to buy reagents? All these are anomalies
we want to correct,” he said.
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