Former ASUU president Professor Festus Iyayi was killed when a police convoy belonging to Kogi State governor Idris Wada rammed into the ASUU bus in which he was travelling. He was said to have died on the spot.
With the death of Iyayi, it is likely that today’s ASUU meeting in Kano over the ongoing strike will be put on hold and the strike may linger.
The former ASUU president was on his way to Kano to attend the ASUU NEC meeting in the company of three other lecturers of the UNIBEN chapter of ASUU when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a police escort vehicle in the convoy of the Kogi State governor in Banda, about 9 kilometers to Lokoja, the state capital.
According to eyewitnesses, the governor’s convoy had, while trying to avoid potholes, rammed into the bus conveying Iyayi . Following the impact, the vehicle was forced out of the road and somersaulted several times, killing the professor of Business Administration instantly.
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