APC slams FG over ‘plot to break ASUU’

All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused
the Federal Government of employing “cheap
and ludicrous strategy” by using market
women, religious leaders and students to put
pressure on the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, to call off its strike. APC, in a statement in Lagos, yesterday, by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, said that the strike, which is now
in its fourth month, would have ended by now if
the Federal Government had pursued its
negotiations with ASUU with half the energy it had been using to rally various groups to
protest against the union. The party said: ‘’This infantile statement by the
leader of the apparently misguided market
women is the most irresponsible statement
that anyone has made on the long-drawn ASUU
strike, and it is a shame that the government is
the instigator of such nonsense. ‘’While indeed there are millions of jobless
Nigerians, is it just any jobless Nigerian that
can be a university teacher? “How does President Goodluck Jonathan,
himself a former university teacher, feel about
those apparently hired by his administration
treating university teachers with so much
disrespect?”