The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Branch, says it will sustain its indefinite strike until the Ondo State Government addresses its outstanding demands.
The branch chairman, Prof. Boluwaji Oshodi, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure.
Oshodi spoke against the backdrop of the state government’s recent approval of a 60 per cent increase in monthly subventions to state-owned tertiary institutions and its announcement of the immediate implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU agreement to address workers’ welfare.
He said the union had not received any official briefing on the government’s intervention and only learned about the development through media reports.
“For now, everything we read is still in the newspapers. Nobody has given us any official information.
“The governor has not been interacting with the union; he has only been interacting with the management.
“So, as we speak now, we do not have the facts aside from what we have been reading on the pages of newspapers,” Oshodi said.
On whether the union would suspend the strike, the chairman said the industrial action remained in force because its major demands had yet to be resolved.
“The strike has just started. The way it is now, if what we are reading is true, then the issues have not been addressed.
“We have been talking about two major issues – the implementation of the FGN/ASUU 2025 agreement and the payment of salary arrears starting from January.
“The government said implementation should commence immediately, but we don’t know what that ‘immediately’ means. The issues have not been addressed,” he said.
NAN reports that ASUU-AAUA declared a total and indefinite strike on Aug. 11, citing the non-implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement and unpaid salary arrears owed to its members since January.
