postponed National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Friday. After a
wide spread rumoured NEC meeting last week. ASUU is expected to decide
whether or not to suspend the indefinite strike it began four months
ago.
What is however unclear is if the NEC meeting will still be held at
the Bayero University, Kano where it was initially proposed to hold.
The leadership of the Union postponed the scheduled Kano NEC meeting
following the demise of one its key members, Festus Iyayi, a former
President, who died last Tuesday in a ghastly motor accident on his
way to Kano for the postponed NEC meeting. He died along the
Abuja-Lokoja highway in an accident caused by the convoy of Kogi State
Governor, Idris Wada.
The Union also urged the public to ignore speculations that ASUU has
called off its NEC meeting indefinitely, explaining that the Union
only postponed the NEC meeting as a mark of honour and respect for the
late Iyayi.
An official on condition of anonymity confirmed that ASUU officials
had last week Wednesday converged at the Bayero University, Kano,
before news of Iyayi's death filtered in.
The Union has been on strike since July 1 over the 2009 agreement it
reached with the Federal Government. All efforts to call it off seemed
abortive until President Goodluck Jonathan waded in with an offer of
N1.1 trillion to be spread across the nation's universities for a
period of five years. ASUU has said it will deliberate on Federal
government's offer and take a position after its forthcoming NEC.
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