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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) chapter has insisted that its former executives led by Chinedu Ihejirika remain suspended despite verbal attacks by the Owerri zone of the union.
Addressing newsmen on the latest crisis in the union, acting chairperson of ASUU-FUTO, Comrade Frank Ojiako, described the Owerri zone coordinator, Professor Denis Aribodor’s claims in the media as an “arraignment of fiction and half truths” aimed at misleading the public.
Ojiako also pointed out that it was highly ridiculous for the leadership of ASUU, Owerri zone, to impose a suspended executive, Ihejirika, on the union and thereby resolved that his suspension still stood.
He said: “The erstwhile executive committee of ASUU-FUTO led by Comrade Chinedu Ihejirika has been suspended indefinitely and a new executive, in acting capacity appointed by a legally-constituted and very well-attended Congress that held at the Forestry and Wildlife Technology Department Auditorium on July3.
However, giving reasons for the suspension, Ojiako said that the Ihejirika-led executives were suspended on offences ranging from alleged financial recklessness, repeated betrayal of ASUU-FUTO congress decisions, and campaign of calumny on the state exco among others.
