This is the statement released by the University's chapter of ASUU
Barely few days after the suspension of the three months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Chapter, which was meant to press for the payment of outstanding salary and deductions, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, is on the way to precipitating another round of instability in the institution based on his brazen violation of rules and regulations.
Central to these was the decision of the Vice Chancellor to appoint acting Deans OF faculties and Heads of Department while the defunct strike action was on.
The local ASUU in AAUA, at the point it was suspending the strike, called the attention of the Vice Chancellor to this infraction through a resolution of Congress which also demanded that the process be reversed within 7 working days, starting from the day the resolution was taken.
However, the total disregard to this resolution by the Vice Chancellor by reason of summoning the Senate of the University, which would have in attendance these irregularly appointed Deans and HODs, shows his preparedness to take on the Union, notwithstanding the good reasons that are needed to protect the University.
Apparently, the revulsion Prof. Ajibefun has for rules and regulations is deep-seated and almost unhealable, as he has also continued to employ academic staff that are over 70 years in total disregard to the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement and ONDO STATE GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER AND OFFICIAL GAZETTE.
We call on well meaning Nigerians, particularly Ondo State indigenes, to prevail on the Vice Chancellor to allow good reasons to subsist as members of the Union are ready to resume effective teaching immediately, not minding that three months of their salary and eight months of deductions are still outstanding.
It should be made abundantly clear that AAUA should not be run based on the whims and caprices of an individual or an ambitious click, but on established rules and regulations.
The Union is committed to performing its function and responsibility of a better AAUA, and will not succumb to any blackmail or pressure in the discharge of this onerous assignment.
Aluta continua!
Dr. Sola FAYOSE
Chairperson For and on behalf of ASUU-AAUA
