BREAKING: ASUU Vows to Sanction FUTO, Declares Pantami’s Professorship Illegal

 

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has said the promotion of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami as a professor is illegal.

 

ASUU said it has concluded plans to sanction its members in the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, and the university’s Vice-Chancellor over the blunder.

 

The union, which made this known during a press conference by its National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke held in Lagos on Monday, said promoting the minister to a professor was illegal.

 

According to ASUU, it is impossible to be a minister and a lecturer at the same time, describing the promotion as encouragement of illegality.

 

The union gave Pantami the option of quitting his job as a minister, saying he is currently not qualified to be treated as a professor.

 

He said, “You cannot be a minister and a lecturer in a university. It is an encouragement of illegality.