DR Ikechukwu Igwuwenyi ,the chairman of ASUU, Ebonyi state chapter says all state universities can not survive without joining the union for assistance.
he said this after confirming that Ebonyi chapter of ASUU has not suspend the ongoing strike ordered by the national leadership of ASUU.
This was as he reiterated that the chapter of ASUU had not pulled out of the ongoing strike ordered by the national leadership of the Union.
He stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abakaliki, Monday evening.
According to him, 98 per cent of what the universities enjoyed today came from the ASUU struggle and through the intervention of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.
“That rumour going on that some state universities want to break up from the ongoing industrial action by the ASUU is baseless. If any university tries it, such institution will still run back to ASUU because 98 per cent of the structures and equipment being enjoyed today in all the state universities are courtesy of the TETFUND and NEEDS Assessment via the ASUU struggle,” he said.
“There are many universities that have tried it before now to separate themselves from ASUU, but it didn’t work out. Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Ilorin tried it before but later ran back to its source of livelihood which is ASUU.
