OAU joins ASUU strike as CONUA members oppose action

Members of the Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State and Congress of University Academics (CONUA) were divided over the strike action on Monday. 

The ASUU branch Chairman, Professor Anthony Odiwe, said: “Our members would have to comply with the directive of strike because it is a collective decision and an issue we all are battling with, so, there is no option than to comply with it, no one is doing another person favour, we are all suffering the same humiliation from government.”
However, he said.

it was too early to monitor compliance of strike, saying, “we just have our Congress, ratified the decision and send same to the school authority, hopefully by tomorrow we would be able to monitor the effectiveness of the strike. But I am sure it would be 100 per cent.”

But National Secretary of CONUA, Professor Henry Oripeloye, said: “Our members went about their daily activities. They have not started going to classes because students of the school have not fully resumed for lectures.”