{"id":108528,"date":"2019-01-05T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/?p=108528"},"modified":"2019-01-05T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T14:29:47","slug":"asuu-agrees-to-partake-in-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/asuu-agrees-to-partake-in-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Agrees To Partake In General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to participate in the forthcoming general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement was reached at a meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and officials of the union in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the meeting, Biodun Ogunyemi. president of ASUU, said the union would not stop its members from participating in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had a good meeting with the INEC team. We placed on record that our relationship with INEC dated back to 2010 when the former ASUU president, Attahiru Jega was chairman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven though we are not in the position now to do everything we were doing that time, we have assured them that we will not stand in the way of our members participating in the election as ad-hoc staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe decision of our union as at the last time we met was that our members are free as citizens to participate in the electoral process as ad-hoc staff and we have restated that today that we are not going to stop any of our members who <g class=\"gr_ gr_6 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"6\" data-gr-id=\"6\">wish<\/g> to serve in that capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn our own part, we will continue to support them with research because our strike as of today is about academic activities, we have not stopped conducting research, we have not stopped conducting community services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cParticipating in the\u00a0<g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">election<\/g> is part of community service, we as patriots we will do everything to support the process that will further institutionalise the democratisation of our entire nation. So we are working at that level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development comes after the University of Ibadan (UI) chapter of ASUU told INEC not to depend on students and lecturers for the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/just-in-buhari-orders-arrest-prosecution-of-nff-pres-pinnick-for-alleged-fraud\/\">READ ALSO: JUST IN: BUHARI ORDERS ARREST, PROSECUTION OF NFF PRES, PINNICK FOR ALLEGED FRAUD<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to participate in the forthcoming general election. 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