to hold its 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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