ASUP Strike: Nigeria Polytechnic lecturers to hold emergency NEC meeting on wednesday

ASUP says it will not back down on the strike until
the Federal Government attends to its needs.
The Zonal Coordinator, South-West, of the
Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP,
Ademola Dosumu, has said the union’s ongoing
strike would continue until the Federal Government
meets its demands.

Mr. Dosumu said this in Ibadan on Tuesday.
He said that the National Executive Council, NEC, of
the union was expected to hold an emergency
meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
“The strike is still on but our NEC is billed to hold a
meeting where we shall resolve everything related
to the ongoing strike,” he said.

The zonal coordinator said that until government
meets its demands, lectures would not take place at
the various polytechnics in the country.
“The last meeting held, the Federal Government
promised to attend to four out of its demand, but
unfortunately only two were implemented and until
the other two demands are met, lecturers will not
go back to work.
“Part of the demands that was met by the
government included the demand of the
constitution of governing councils of Federal
Polytechnics, which has since been done, ” Mr.
Dosumu said.

The others, he said, include the release of the White
Paper on Visitations to Federal Polytechnics, and
the commencement of the Needs Assessment of
Nigerian Polytechnics.

The ASUP Chairman of the Polytechnic Ibadan,
Adebayo Phillips, said that the union directed fresh
students to commence registration only.
“The union sent an e-mail to fresh students to
commence their registration and that has been on
hence the administrative section of the institution
has been working except the lecturers who are on
strike,” he said.
Mr. Phillips explained that the authorities and the
union had peculiar issues in spite of the ongoing
strike.

ASUP has been on and off strike for almost a year.
The latest strike commenced in October 2013.
(NAN)