ASUU declares Pantami’s professorship illegal, to sanction FUTO VC, others

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has pronounced illegal the promotion of Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, to a professorship level.

This was according to a statement by Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of ASUU during a press conference on Monday.

Osodeke noted that it is illegal for Pantami to be a minister and a lecturer in a university at the same time.

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

“Pantami has to quit as a minister and be tried for doing double jobs within the same federal system. He is not qualified. Pantami should not be treated as a professor, he said

“We have resolved to sanction ASUU members involved in his promotion and the VC of FUTO,” he added.

In September 2021, Pantami, alongside seven academics were elevated by the council of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri to the position of professorship at the council’s 186th meeting.