The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) branch, has threatened to shun the institution’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Okodudu, if he remains in office beyond his stipulated term of six months as provided by the Universities Act 2003.
ASUU’s position is premised on the refusal of the Federal Government to constitute a Governing Council in the institution.
The union chairman, Dr. Austen Sado said on Thursday that “The government is engineering a crisis in the University of Port Harcourt if it fails to constitute a Governing Council immediately. We can do without the impending crisis of legitimacy being orchestrated by the government.
“ASUU will no longer cooperate with an acting Vice-Chancellor beyond January 13, 2021. From the provisions of the Act stated above, the Governing Council is pivotal to the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor in our university. Sadly, the government dissolved the Governing Council in May 2020 and, in violation of the Universities (miscellaneous provision) Law, refused to constitute another Council…”
“The Accountant-General of the Federation and their collaborators have also complicated the situation by withholding our members’ salaries to blackmail us into enrolling on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) even after our union submitted the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) to it. For the avoidance of doubt, our members who have been subjected to up to eight months of hunger by the AGF are not even contemplating enrolment on IPPIS.”
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