Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has bowed out as the president of Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday as the union elected a new leadership to pilot its affairs for the next two years.
The executive council of ASUU would however spend a maximum of four years. They were elected at the national delegates conference of ASUU held in Awka, Anambra State.
The immediate past National Vice President, Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State was elected President, Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Jos was elected Vice President.
Others are Prof. Siji Sowande of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta was elected as Treasurer; Prof. Ade Adejumo of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso of is the new Financial Secretary; Dr. Austen Sado of the University of Port Harcourt is the Investment Secretary.
Dr. Adamu Babayo from Abubakar Tafawa Belewa University, Bauchi emerged as the (Internal Auditor and Dr. Stella-Maris Okey of the Cross River State University is the Welfare Secretary.
While the new President was former Vice President to Ogunyemi, outgone President, Piwuna, before his election, was the Internal Auditor of ASUU and its former Chairman in UNIJOS.
