“OAU is not on Strike” – Vice Chancellor
Mr Eyitope Ogunbodede, the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, said the Lecturers of the University are not joining the ASUU indefinite strike.
He mentioned that the Lecturers of OAU does not have any interest in partaking in the national strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU that was announced.
Mr Ogunbodede revealed this while speaking to PREMIUM TIMES on phone, He said: “OAU is not on strike. As at today, no lecturer has told me that they want to go on strike. We are not participating in any national strike.”
“If they tell me they want to go on strike, and then it is a different case, As such, I must have seen that all of my academic staff wants to go on strike.
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“In OAU, we have ‘unions’; neither of the two has told me they want to go on strike so we are not joining any strike at all.”
Obafemi Awolowo University’s ASUU chapter was split into two in the year 2016 despite that the University was one of the most influential chapters of ASUU in the past.
