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The Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) has responded to accusations that it was involved in the continuous closure of the citadel BlackBox Nigeria has gathered.

The obviously annoyed students refuted the allegations that the union is responsible for the continued closure of the institution earlier made by the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Education, Fatai Olukoga on Tuesday when he stated that "workers and students' unions are to blame for the continued closure of the university".

The Students' Union in a statement sent to BBN and signed by the Public Relations Officer, Comrade Adebanjo Fatai berated the Special Adviser for making such an "erroneous and unacceptable statement which is capable of inciting the students against the students union leadership". 

"‎It's a pitiable dismal abysmal, and regrettably lugubrious that an elder statesman like the SA to the Governor on Education Otunba Fatai Olukoga can make such erroneous and unacceptable statement against the Students Union of LASU that the Union is part of the reason why the citadel is still wallowing in the jacuzi of election recess."

The Union reiterated it's call for the reopening of the school saying the Otunba Olukoga had earlier deceived them about resumption. 

‎"As a Union that wanted a lasting solution on the issues on campus, we made a visit to the office of the SA Education on the 20th March, 2015 to consult him on how the issues on our campus can be solved and the gate would be opened. It was then that he told us that, election recess will be declared in our school because they envisaged  pre and post election crisis, and they don't want the students to be victims of such crisis. Subsequently, on the 23rd March, 2015, the open ended recess was declared which the Students Union condemned in it totality that why would a recess have no resumption date.  Furthermore, since after the April 11 peaceful election, our school had not been reopened, then we visited the leadership of the University management and the Governing Council countless of time  which never yielded positive change. We then visited the SA Education again on the 20th April, 2015 to ask him about the closure of the school, and we were told we couldn't  see him as Monday is their state Exco meeting day, that we should come back another day. We were there again on the 21st April, 2015 and we met him on his way going home, and he explained to us that they were holding on to our resumption because they haven't completed our school fees refund. We therefore told him that we were ready to resume, that they can reopen the school and at the same time continue the payment process. It was then that the SA Education put a call through the Chairman Governing Council in our presence and he told him that " please meet and find out modalities on how LASU would be reopened because the students said they want to resume". We were assured by the SA that by 27th April, 2015 we would surely resume. We left his office in happiness all because we have been promised that we would resume the following  Monday. We went on social media to inform our students of the new development, and told them to get ready for resumption. Unfortunately, the school was never reopened on the said Monday, and all we could see on the University site on the 26th April, 2015 was that " the declared recess is still very much in force", which shows that the State Govt and the university  are not ready to listen to our yearning. We then made a peaceful march from Allen junction to the Governor's Office to submit our position letter to the Governor as the visitor of the school, so that he can do something as the SA Education has failed us totally, by blatantly deceiving  us. To our greatest surprise, the SA Education took to media yesterday that the students' union is part of the continued closure in LASU, and the the Students Union was part of those who called for the sack of the vice chancellor. We held our congress on the 20th March, 2015 which was attended by over 400 students, and the decision of the Congress was that we should not support that  the VC must go as that cannot solve the problem, that the VC should stay and complete his tenure. Then the question arose that " why would an elderly statesman like Otunba Fatai Olukoga be blowing hot and cold at the same time,he is approbating and reprobating on the same issue", the statement further read.

The Statement further revealed that failure to resume soon would affect the already inconsistent academic calender especially as final year students of the Faculty of Law might not be able to meet up with the October law school calender.