According to a report by Daily Independent, crisis erupted at the zonal meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held at Federal University, Oye Ekiti as aggrieved members of the union demanded that the local chairman step down.
Members of the union were seen chasing zonal officers including the chairman, Dr Adeniyi Omonijo was asked step aside before the commencement of the meeting.
However the zonal chairman, Akure Zone, Prof Olu Olu, was not willing to yield to the demand. The meeting which was billed for 1pm was aborted when irate members stormed the venue and chased away those who wanted to hold the meeting.
A leader of the union and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the university, Dr. Opoola Bolanle Tajudeen, reacting to the development, said: “There was to be a congress but there was no congress because our members felt strongly that Prof Olu Olu, who has been part of our problem in this chapter should not now come to foist any congress on us and they insisted that he cannot hold any congress when the chairman of our chapter that he is imposing on us has committed impeachment offences.
“There has been a resolution on ground that the chairman has committed impeachable offences and should go.
“Our people really felt bad and demonstrated their grievances. They spoke their mind. However there was no casualty.
“The demands of our members who insist they are still part of ASUU is that current chairman of our branch Omonijo should step down because he has committed impeachable offences.
“Our people cannot allow a system where some people from outside would cone and lord over us. We have our own internal problem and we should be allowed to solve it internally. Our people want ASUU to move on but we don’t want Omonijo again.”
