The Academic Staff Union of Universities said members partaking in the 2023 elections would be doing so of their own volition.
ASUU said it stopped participating in elections in Nigeria because the system was flawed.
The union requested that it should be allowed by the Independent National Electoral Commission to participate in all the segments of the election, from the polling unit, collision, and announcement for which the government refused.
The President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke said, “ASUU participated (in the election) during the period of (Prof. Attahiru) Jega and since then, we have decided we are not participating as a union in any election process because it is fraudulent.
“We requested that they should allow us to participate in all the segments of the election, from the polling booth to the collision, to the announcement. But they refused and so we withdrew from it as a union.
“And in the last (2019) election, we were very clear; we announced openly that we are not participating in 2019 election that any of our member who is going, is going as a person, not as an ASUU member which they are entitled to.
“So (in 2023), we are not going to tell our members anything. Anyone who wants to go is doing so on his own. When you are going, don’t wear anything that has an ASUU signal, either its name or anything. You are going as a person; you are not going because you are a member of ASUU.
“During Jega (era), he asked us to nominate, which we did. Although at the upper collation level, we were able to control it, at the polling booth where they do the rigging, we were not allowed access to it, so we left.”
