The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, on Monday gave the governors of Anambra and Imo states a 14-day ultimatum to implement the 2025 Federal Government/ASUU Agreement or face an indefinite strike in two state-owned universities.
The union warned that academic activities would be shut down at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, and Imo State University if Governors Chukwuma Soludo and Hope Uzodinma failed to implement the agreement.
Addressing journalists at the ASUU Conference Hall of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, the Owerri Zonal Coordinator, Dennis Aribodor, lamented that more than five months after implementation of the agreement began nationwide, the two state-owned universities had yet to comply.
Aribodor said the union had exhausted all avenues of engagement with the governments of the affected states, adding that both universities submitted the 2025 FG-ASUU Agreement to their administrations in February 2026, in line with a directive of the union’s National Executive Council.
He said the National Universities Commission had also communicated the agreement to the governors, who are Visitors to the universities, as well as their vice-chancellors.
