As the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters 89 days, CEOAFRICA.com gathered from Akure, the capital of Ondo that members of the above-mentioned union at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba- Akoko has threaten a total showdown with the authorities of the institution if it should make any attempt to recall students and lecturers to campus.

The body urged parents to discard such plans and keep their wards at home, saying the management of the institution should be ready for showdown should the school be reopened despite the ongoing strike.

It would be recalled that the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Olufemi Mimiko, said on Wednesday, that he would reopen the institution if ASUU failed to call off its strike.

“We have unbroken four-year academic calendar before the strike started.  The strike has affected our  programmes.  It is not in the interest of our students.  We hope ASUU will call off  the  strike soon,  if not, we are considering taking  a measure to bring our  students  back to the campus.

“Ours   is a state university and the  case is  different.  We don’t have any subsisting agreement with the ASUU.  It is the Federal Government that has issues with the ASUU.”

Contrary to the VC’s position, Chairman of ASUU, AAUA, Dr. Busayo Mekusi, said the plan of the school management is an attempt to plunge the institution into an unending crisis.

He told journalists in Akure: “We advise parents to restrain their wards from heeding the call as ASUU AAUA is still on strike, anybody trying to  break the ongoing strike meant to better the lots of  our students of tomorrow is an enemy of our future. All the members of the union should disregard this.”

Dr. Busayo Mekusi also refuted the claim that the institution has no subsisting agreement with the Federal Government, arguing that the ongoing struggle had given AAUA access to N1.05bn so far from the Federal Government allocation.

He said, “We are committed to the strike called by the union to push for the implementation of the 2009 agreement; state universities were duly represented during the processes of negotiation that culminated in the signing of the agreement and this account for why AAUA has been benefitting from the proceeds of ASUU struggle as found in  the intervention of TETFUND.

“By this purported resumption of academic activities, the VC seems to be ready to plunge the institution into crisis as he wants to apply the University of Ilorin model, which promotes dehumanisation and slavery.”