Tinubu Seeking to Make Political Capital out of ASUU Strike – Obi Supporters
POLITICS DIGEST- The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has frowned at reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been holding meetings with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards ending the union’s protracted industrial action.
POSN in a statement signed by Adegbite Adekunle, it’s Deputy Director of Communications, said the purported talks with ASUU is a campaign stunt that will not bring any good result.
The support group argued that Tinubu should be holding meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari to urge him to address the lecturers’ plight, and not with ASUU.
“Nigerian universities have been on lockdown for more down two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigerians are afraid that their students will continue the stay-at-home pandemic unless the ruling party is kicked out of government,” POSN lamented.
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“With this development, the All Progressives Congress further establishes that it does not view anything as sacred in its quest to retain power, including, the endangerment of the academic future of our youths and trammelling the professional potentials of our scholars,” POSN stated.
“The POSN views this development as a confirmation that the ASUU strike may have been deliberately designed to create a good campaign platform for its controversy ridden presidential candidate, who has obviously found it difficult to take off on his presidential bid.
“We suspect that President Buhari has set up the stalemate in negotiations between the ASUU and the Federal Government and would quickly clear the hurdle following Tinubu’s stage-managed intervention, to cast him (Tinubu) as a good negotiator and problem solver, which will confer some advantage to him in the candidate.
The POSN further advises our long-suffering Nigerian university students and other Nigerians who are victims of APC bad governance and treachery, to keep hope alive in the new Nigeria which shall be birthed with the Obi-Datti presidency in 2023,” the statement read in part.
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