The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Wednesday suspended indefinitely its National
Executive Council meeting over the sudden death of its former national
President, Prof. Festus Iyayi who died in a fatal auto-crash along
Lokoja – Abuja federal Highway Tuesday.
Prof. Festus Iyayi,66, died after the
vehicle he was travelling in had a head-on collision with a security
vehicle attached on the convoy of Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris
Ichala Wada at a village near Lokoja .
Iyayi was on his way to Kano for the National Executive Council meeting.
National President, ASUU, Dr. Nasiru
Fagge told reporters in Kano that “we are compelled to postponed this
meeting in the light of the sudden death of one of our strongest pillar
who died yesterday”
Dr. Nasiru Fagge said that “as you can
see for yourself, we are mourning the departure of this great scholar
and you would agree with me that in this circumstance we cannot look at
issues objectively”.
Dr. Fagge described his late colleague
as a ‘strong pillar of the union’, stressing that “this is great loss to
the entire country”.
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