Delta University Lecturers Join ASUU’s One-Day Strike

Academic activities at the Delta State University were
grounded on Thursday as lecturers in the institution joined their colleagues
across the country in a nationwide strike.

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) in the institution, Dr Emmanuel Mordi, said that the strike was in
solidarity with Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST)
branch of the union.

Mordi also told The Tide in Asaba that the action was
directed by the National Secretariat of ASUU, and that it was a one day
solidarity strike.

He explained that the strike was to draw public attention to
arbitrary actions of the Visitor of RSUST and Rivers Governor, Rt. Hon
Chibuike  Rotimi Amaechi.

He said that against the university’s law, the governor was
trying to impose a surrogate Governing Council and a Vice-Chancellor on the
institution’s community.

Mordi said that ASUU in the school was insisting that all
the processes for constituting the council and selecting a vice-chancellor
should be conducted in accordance with the university’s law.

“But the visitor will not have any of that. He wants to
circumvent the law and force the university to accept what he wants,
irrespective of its illegality,” Mordi said.