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| ASUU strike |
The Senior Staff Association of
Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has demanded for the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to retract a statement claiming that the strike by
university lecturers could jeopardise the 2019 elections.
The spokesperson of
SSANU, Abdussobur Salaam, told Premium Times on Friday morning, December 21,
that the statement by INEC was highly unfortunate and unbecoming of the
national electoral umpire.
The academic body said such
unguarded statement by INEC had a tendency to erode the confidence of Nigerians
in the 2019 elections and is a threat to democracy in itself. The spokesperson
said the ongoing national strike by ASUU had nothing to do with the 2019 elections.
Salaam stated that though many lecturers were picked by INEC as adhoc staff,
but their participation as adhoc staff of INEC should never been seen as a
union activity.
“To thus tie the conduct and
success of the 2019 elections to the ASUU strike is indeed unfortunate and
smacks of mischief on the part of INEC,” he said. Meanwhile, INEC has urged the
Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to
monitor finances of political parties. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that INEC also called on ICPC to do so for the cases of vote buying and other
related vices. Legit.ng gathers that Mutiu Agboke, the resident electoral commissioner
in Oyo state, gave the advice on Thursday, December 20, when he and his
management team paid courtesy visit to the ICPC commissioner in Oyo state,
Stephen Pimo.
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