THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday elected and inaugurated a new leadership of the union with its immediate past Vice-President, Prof Victor Emmanuel Osodeke, emerging as the new President.
The new ASUU President, a professor of Soil Science, hails from the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State. He was elected at the end of ASUU’s three-day delegates’ conference held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
Osodeke takes over the mantle of leadership of ASUU from Biodun Ogunyemi, a professor of education from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.
Elected along with Prof Osodeke, include Dr Chris Piwuna from the University of Jos (vice president); Prof Olusiji Sowande from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, (treasurer); Prof Ade Adejumo from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso (financial secretary); Dr Austen Sado from University of Port Harcourt (investment secretary); Dr Adamu Babayo from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi (internal auditor) and Dr Stella-Maris Oke from Cross River State University of Science and Technology (welfare secretary); while Prof Ogunyemi will continue to serve in the new leadership as ex-officio in order to guide the new leadership on a number of issue relating to ASUU struggles.