University governing councils: ASUU oppose Tinubu’s nominees
The Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria (ASUU) has rejected the recently constituted university governing councils by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu saying that most of the appointees were retired politicians.
Their grouse is that while technocrats are required to fill the membership of the governing boards, they were instead comprised of politician who have nothing to contribute to the growth of the universities.
The national president of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke who expressed the view of the lecturers said the composition of the newly appointed councils was worse than the previous one.
Said he: Go and look at the list again, you will see that most of them are retired politicians. They are honourable this and honourable that. What does that tell us, he queried adding, “that is how terrible things have become. We can run our universities like this if we truly want genuine development to take place”.
He decried the lack of rigour in appointing members of university governing councils adding that appointing politicians and those who cannot manage the universities to these councils would not bring real development, nor uplift the standard of education.
It would be recalled that ASUU had taken the federal government to task for what it called ‘illegal dissolution of the former councils more than ten months ago when they were yet to complete their statutory tenure.
ASUU said therefore the new governing councils are illegal before the law.
