The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) has agreed to participate in the forthcoming general
election.
The agreement was reached at a
meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and
officials of the union in Abuja.
At the end of the meeting, Biodun
Ogunyemi. president of ASUU, said the union would not stop its members from
participating in the exercise.
“We had a good meeting with the
INEC team. We placed on record that our relationship with INEC dated back to
2010 when the former ASUU president, Attahiru Jega was chairman,” he said.
“Even though we are not in the
position now to do everything we were doing that time, we have assured them
that we will not stand in the way of our members participating in the election
as ad-hoc staff.
“The decision of our union as at
the last time we met was that our members are free as citizens to participate
in the electoral process as ad-hoc staff and we have restated that today that we
are not going to stop any of our members who wishes to serve in that capacity.
“On our own part, we will
continue to support them with research because our strike as of today is about
academic activities, we have not stopped conducting research, we have not
stopped conducting community services.
“Participating in election is
part of community service, we as patriots we will do everything to support the
process that will further institutionalise the democratisation of our entire
nation. So we are working at that level.”
The development comes after the
University of Ibadan (UI) chapter of ASUU told INEC not to depend on students
and lecturers for the general election.
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