The president Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has denied calling state universities “quacks”.
Recall the ASUU president made the assertion while appearing on Arise Television on Friday.
His words; “Yobe, go and check, just like Kaduna university, what’s happening there? Please don’t set those examples (referring to those resuming lectures), they’re irrelevant.
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“Talk about the issues. Is Ibadan on strike? Is UNN on strike? Is ABU on strike? Is BUK on strike? Is Maiduguri and Lagos on strike?
“Talk about important universities not those quacks. They’re not part of our strike. Set the ones that are members of our strike.”
But while reacting on Channels TV’s Politics Today, monitored by Quest Times on Tuesday, Prof Osodeke blamed the media for misquoting him adding that he never called state universities “quacks”.
“What I said was very clear. The person on the seat asked me a question that your members in three universities have abandoned you and I gave them that LASU, we have a problem with them and because the universities sacked all the leaders of ASUU in the branch.
“That’s why they are not on strike; that in KWASU they are not even our members yet and they are not meeting the standard and that in Osun they were punished for breaking our strike and they are all part of the problem.
“That’s exactly what I said and therefore our union there is not running well. That’s why I used that word, they are not running well. That the universities are not allowing our union to run well. I didn’t say state universities. Then I mentioned three again; Ekiti State University, Kaduna State University and Yobe State University.
“In those universities, although the management and the government have forced universities to announce resumption, our members said they are not teaching.
“That’s what I said at those three universities, but I’m surprised that they are busy writing all sorts of things. That’s exactly the word I used,” he said.