FUTO Crisis: NANS Tackles ASUU Over VC’s Resignation Call

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has warned the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), over its call for the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Nnenna Oti to resign, urging the union to rescind from such ugly move or face the wrath of the students.

Vice President, National Association of Nigerian Students, Comrade Victor Ezenagu, gave the warning while addressing journalists in Abuja on the crisis allegedly orchestrated by ASUU, which the students observed could plunge the peaceful University into a prolonged impasse.

The student body also called on the Federal Government to proscribe ASUU for being responsible for instability in the University system in Nigeria.

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NANS leadership revealed that its female student members in FUTO are already mobilising their colleagues in other universities all over the country for a mother of all protest against the intimidation of the female Vice-Chancellor just because of her gender.

Ezenagu said it has become expedient, albeit with dismay, to address the unbecoming attitude of the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University.

The latest of which is the derogatory headline of the dailies wherein the union zonal Leaders allegedly demanded the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri for alleged corruption.

NANS posited that the attack on her person has been so vehement basically because of her gender, emerging as the Vice Chancellor of the University, as well as her transparency during the national assignment and in the discharge of her duties as Vice-Chancellor.