The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Tuesday failed to resolve the disagreement between the Ebonyi state government and the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) chapter of the union.
The ASUU delegation, led by its National Vice Chairman Academics, Emmanuel Osodeke, was in the state to intervene in the dispute.
The delegation visited Governor Dave Umahi at the Government House, Abakaliki but after hours of a meeting, Osodeke told reporters the meeting failed to resolve the dispute.
According to him, the delegation decided to meet with Governor Umahi, who is the Visitor to the Institution, because the governing board dissolved by the governor recently has not been reconstituted.
He said the governor, instead of focusing on the issues, decided to tackle the chairman of Ebonyi State University (EBSU) chapter of ASUU, Ikechukwu Igwenyi.
“Minor issues of personality and persons became the major issue rather than the issues affecting EBSU and that was why the meeting ended on a deadlock.
“Instead of talking about EBSU, we are talking about the EBSU-ASUU chairman and calling him a boy and saying that he is abusing him (the visitor) and therefore he, the visitor, will not relate with the chairman anymore,” he said.
Osodeke said the delegation would meet with the lecturers today before the union at the national level decides on what to do next.
“The threat against ASUU-EBSU Chairman was repeated again today by the governor that if anything happens here, he will be held responsible,” he stated.
The Commissioner for Education in the state, Onyebuchi Chima, however, said the delegation came with “wrong information” on the situation.
