An election organized by the Academic Staff Union, ASUU, of the Anambra State–owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University to select its senate member for the university’s Council ended in fiasco with ballot boxes smashed and thrown away.
Trouble started when ASUU members could not agree on who was qualified for the election.
As the lecturers engaged themselves in shouting matches, some of them reached for the already placed ballot boxes, smashed and threw them away and the votes already cast by voters were scattered all over the university auditorium.
In the ensuing confusion, many ASUU members scampered for safety such that the exercise ended abruptly.
It was gathered that the bone of contention was whether contract staff of the university, who had spent more than three years in the university and staff members who were undertaking courses in the university, were qualified to contest election into the university council.
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