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The Academic Staff Union of Lagos State University (ASUU/LASU) has challenged the management for refusing to announce the resumption date for both the students and staff.

In a statement signed by the union's chairman, Comrade Adekunle Idris, the union said "We got back to learn that the university management had declared a recess and ordered all staff and students to vacate the campuses in view of the coming general elections. Curiously, no resumption date was indicated in the bulletin.
"The union would like to state unequivocally that the open-ended recess announced for the sake of elections is not only unwarranted and disruptive to the academic calendar, it is equally illegal and therefore null and void as the vice chancellor under the guise of the university management, has no authority within the LASU laws to declare such.
"The shutting down of activities in the university, when other institutions are undertaking academic activities, is an act of impunity that will adversely affect our students – the main purpose for which the university exists. By law, only the senate of LASU has the prerogative to adjust the academic calendar and declare a recess. This has not been done by senate".

It noted that shutting down the university for purposes of election, by practice, could only be done by the visitor and governor through the instrumentality of the governing council.
"The union condemns this current aberration in strong terms", it stated, adding there was no breakdown of law and order to warrant a closure.