By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA—Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has given the Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Michael Adikwu, 21 days within which to withdraw comments made against the leadership or face its wrath.

The Vice Chancellor had recently suspended the university’s SSANU branch chairman, Comrade Jude Nwabueze, and Secretary, Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf, for dragging the management to the Federal Government over alleged corruption allegations.

Consequently, the anti-graft agencies have been investigating the university’s financial transactions which in turn had led to the suspension of the two whistle blowers by the management of the university.

However, Prof. Adikwu was said to have disowned the two SSANU leaders as published in a national newspaper.

Reacting to the publication, the National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke, in a statement issued yesterday, told the Vice Chancellor to confirm that the statement disowning the duo was actually made by him.

The statement read: “The attention of the National body of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities has been drawn to a statement credited to the office of the Vice- Chancellor, University of Abuja, Professor Michael Adikwu, (and published in The Nation newspaper of Thursday, 14th December 2016), titled, “ Unibuja disowns SSANU Leader, Secretary.”