ASUU STRIKE: Nigerian Universities To Open Next
Week With Or Without ASUU
In a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike,
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday,
November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at
the Presidential Villa.
This was part of the resolutions of the meeting
between the ASUU leadership, Vice President
Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of
Education on Tuesday as was first reported by this
medium.
An official of the Vice President’s office who
pleaded anonymity said that all hands are now on
deck to ensure that the universities resume next
week.
The official stated that the Vice President and the
Supervising Minister of Education have made
head-way in resolving the strike, but the final
involvement of the President is to show ASUU that
there is the commitment of the Federal
Government at the highest level.
It was learnt that the President has been fully
briefed on steps taken by Vice President Namadi
Sambo and the Supervising Minister of Education
to get to this point and he will at next Monday’s
meeting present to the ASUU leadership the
administration’s last concession for them to call
off the prolonged strike.
A source at the Presidential Villa noted that if
ASUU fails to call off, the Federal Government will
then resort to plan B, which will be to compulsorily
open the universities, using the instrumentality of
the governing councils and the school
managements.
Already, most of the governing councils of the
universities have started meeting to work out
modalities for the compulsory re-opening of the
universities should ASUU fail to honour the
personal request of President Jonathan.
According to report, the Supervising Minister of
Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike and the Vice
Chancellors of Public Universities also discussed
the re-opening of the schools last Monday. Most
of the Vice Chancellors suggested the compulsory
re-opening of the schools, should the last ditch
efforts fail.
It was gathered that security report available to
the Presidency may have necessitated this line of
action to salvage the universities system from the
direction it is facing at present.
Source: The Nigerian Voice
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SUU STRIKE: Nigerian Universities To Open Next Week With Or Without ASUU
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