By Seun Opejobi The Presidency has urged Nigerians to beg the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the ongoing st...
By Seun Opejobi
The Presidency has urged Nigerians to beg the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the ongoing strike.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the president was committed to ending
the ongoing strike.
ASUU last week announced an extension of the strike for one
month.
Speaking over the weekend in Abuja, Shehu insisted that the
Federal Government was working to resolve the face-off.
“It came like a bolt in the sky. We are shocked because it
came at a time when the president is giving full commitment to resolving the
ASUU strike and having the students and teachers back in the school.
“The extension, I believe, should not have been done because
the spirit in which the government now is trying to resolve the problems of
ASUU is such that there should also be a benefit of the doubt in favour of the
government on the part of ASUU.
“The strike is unnecessarily extended and this should not
have been the case. I want to advise parents to join the government in begging
ASUU to end this strike, as the government is doing its part and parents are
worried and they should start talking to ASUU,” he said.
ASUU has been on strike since February 2022.
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