They Don’t Have Power To Suspends Our Strike, We’re not Resuming – ASUU Tackles Edo Government

The Niger Delta University branch of the union has said the state government has no power to disrupt its ongoing strike by directing lecturers in its universities to return to the classroom.

The state government had suspended all union activities in institutions of higher learning in the state following protests by students of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, over the lingering ASUU strike.

In an interview with Saturday PUNCH, the ASUU Chairman in NDU, Bayelsa State, Prof Tombara Kingdom, said the union’s action was captured in the exclusive legislative list of the constitution and could not be dismissed by the Edo State government.

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He added, “We have told our members not to go back to the classrooms, and I believe the members of ASUU in Ambrose Alli University will not listen to that directive from the state government. The state government should go back and look at the law books. They should know that they don’t have that power to suspend union activities. Union activities are on the exclusive list of the Nigerian Constitution.

“I advise them (Edo State Government) to retrace their steps so they can realise that they don’t have any power to suspend union activities. Such a directive from the state government is null and void. It is ultra vires. It will not hold water; they are just wasting their time.”

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CREDIT: ALLSCHOOL, Punch