Zonal chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have said they will meet this week to review the union’s ongoing strike.
The national body of the union and the Federal Government could not agree on the universities teachers’ demands, apart from the N65 billion the government released to the union last week.
ASUU Chairman at the Abia State University (ABSU), Mr. Victor U. Nkemdirim, had announced that the union would meet today (Wednesday) to discuss and pass a resolution on the lingering face-off between the government and the union’s members.
Nkemdirim, who said he was in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, for a zonal meeting of the union, told newsmen that the union’s members in the zone would examine a memorandum from the national body and later take a position on it.
The union leader said the members would report back to the national leadership on the zone’s position.
“The ASUU national body asked various chapters nationwide to hold congresses between Monday and Wednesday to deliberate the resolutions on the items being discussed. Ours will be on Wednesday. We have no resolution for now until the congress meets by 7 a.m on Wednesday.”