ASUU NEC Meeting Not Postponed Indefinitely – ATBU Chairman

The Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr Lawan Abubakar has described the media reports that the union had postponed its National Executive Committee meeting indefinitely as false and speculative. This was even as he dismissed the claim that the union had accepted the N1.3 trillion offered by the Federal Government, saying "what the union is agitating for is the full implementation of the 2009 agreement and nothing less." Abubakar said in an interview with Vanguard, yesterday, in Bauchi that the National Executive Committee of the union only adjourned its meeting for seven days to enable it mourn Prof Festus Iyayi who died in an auto crash involving the entourage of the Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada, adding that the members were awaiting further directives from its national leadership on a new date for the NEC meeting. [Vanguard]