Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has said that professors in Nigerian universities earn as much as he does, and that, in some cases, they earn more than him on a monthly basis.

Fayemi said that as a governor, he earns N500,000 monthly salary, arguing that a professor sometimes earns more than that.

He also berated Nigerian academic for allegedly not taking advantage of certain opportunities which, he said, he was privy to.

The governor added that it was unnecessary for the Academic Staff Union of Universities to have embarked on its ongoing strike action.

He said that ASUU and Nigerian tertiary institutions had benefited more under Buhari’s administration than at other times.