ASUP to Sustain Pressure on Poly Management
From Tunde Sanni in Ilorin

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) in the South West Zone at the weekend enjoyed their colleague at the Kwara State Polytechnic who had been in a protracted labour dispute with its management to sustain the struggle.

The zonal ASUP who met at the Federal Polytechnic, Offa directed the Kwara Poly Teachers to sign the attendance register opened by the management but still shun lectures.

Spokesman of the zonal meeting Kayode Oguntuase who briefed newsmen stated that the meeting was convened at an emergency level on the crisis at the Kwara Poly especially the suspension of the local ASUP chairman Comrade Ola Adefila.

The zonal ASUP pleaded with the visitor to the polytechnic, Governor Bukola Saraki to prevail on the management of the polytechnic to beat a retreat from its confrontational stand in order to avert imminent showdown.

In order to stave off any possible shutdown of polytechnics which may be the consequence of a hard-line posture of the polytechnic administration, the zonal ASUP appointment a negotiator-in-chief to lead further talks between the union and the government?

The union commended the state government for its peace move and promised to reciprocate by opening all doors for dialogue and discussion in a mutually acceptable manner.

Oguntuase however, boasted of a monolithic congress that can withstand the antics of an administrator with a reputation to creating and festering crisis for crude ego trip".