Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to ‘engage in collaborative negotiations’ with Academic Staff Union of Universities in order to end the union’s ongoing strike.
Obi said that the strike has lingered for ‘too long to the extent it was no longer acceptable.
He spoke in a series of tweets on Wednesday on his verified Twitter handle.
The LP candidate wrote, “Our position is that the ASUU strike has lingered for far too long. It is unconscionable, worrisome and unacceptable that FGN would allow such an industrial action to become almost intractable to the detriment of our students.
“It’s time for FGN to engage in collaborative negotiations with ASUU, and in good faith.”
ASUU commenced strike on February 14, 2022. On Monday, August 29, its president, Emmanuel Osodeke, announced in a statement that the National Executive Council of the union in Abuja “resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01 am on Monday, 29th August 2022.”
He said the academic union had endured a “lot of deceit of the highest level in the last five and half years as the Federal Government of Nigeria engaged ASUU in fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of utmost fidelity”.