ASUU Criticizes FG Over New Governing Council Boards.

Academic Staff Union of Universities, Bauchi zone says it is not particularly happy with the appointment of governing boards across Federal Tertiary Institutions, saying that the Bola Tinubu-led administration should instead reinstate the earlier dissolved members.

The zone, comprising executives from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State University Gadau, Federal University Kashere, Gombe State University, as well as Plateau State University, and the University of Jos, disclosed this after its meeting in Gombe State.

Speaking, Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Namo Aku, said, the union didn’t demand fresh appointments for boards, and urged the Tinubu should reinstate the previously sacked members, adding that, the vacuum caused by the sack of governing council boards, made Vice Chancellors act as emperors and empresses.

Also, Immediate Past Coordinator, Lawan Abubakar said reconstitution of boards wasn’t the demand of the union, and Government should do the needful because the union will meet at the end of time frame given at the National Executive Council meeting.

Also speaking, Comrade Alphonsus Alubo, SAN, called for the restoration of council boards.