ASUU Re-elects Professor Osodeke As National President

Nigerian university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday re-elected Professor Emmanuel Osodeke unopposed as their National President.

Gatekeepers News reports that by his re-election, Osodeke will administer the affairs of the union for the next two years.

Osodeke oversaw the union’s struggle with the Nigerian government last year when it went on strike for eight months.

Their demands include the replacement of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) for the payment of the union members’ emoluments; renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement, the release of revitalisation fund, release of white papers on visitation panels to universities. At the time union called off the strike, many of its demands had not been met.

Apart from Osodeke of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture in Umudike, Abia State, the union members re-elected Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor at the University of Jos, as Vice President, The PUNCH reports.

They were re-elected at ASUU’s 22nd National Delegates Conference, which was hosted by the University of Jos in Plateau State from May 19 to 21, 2023.

Other executives of the union who were re-elected include Prof. Siji Sowande (Treasurer); Prof. Ade Adejumo (Financial Secretary); Dr Austen Sado (Investment Secretary); Dr Adamu Babayo (Internal Auditor); and Dr Aisha Bawa, who replaced Dr Stella-Maris Okey as Welfare Secretary.

“We have finished with our national delegates conference in Jos. It was successful. We are on our way back to Abuja. We will issue a statement regarding the conference and my re-election and other national officers when we get back to our station,” Osodeke said.