ASUU Disowns Unizik Breakaway Group

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Nsukka zone, yesterday, disowned the ASUU splinter group formed recently by some aggrieved lecturers of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, over the manner its local ASUU branch was being run.

The members of the Nsukka zone of ASUU comprising Abia State University, Uturu, Anambra State University, Uli, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Enugu State University of Technology, Enugu, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and University of Nigeria, Nsukka were in Awka on a solidarity visit to the UNIZIK ASUU.

Speaking at a news conference, Coordinator of Nsukka zone of ASUU, Dr. Chidi Osuagwu, maintained that the group known as ASUU NAU Progressives, which is a breakaway group from UNIZIK ASUU, was not recognised by ASUU.

He added that as a registered trade union in Nigeria, ASUU was one united and very disciplined body.