ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke and ASUU strike logo
By Our Reporter
The President of The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has urged parents and students to vote out leaders who ensured universities remain closed nationwide.
He spoke with journalists on Thursday at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, shortly after addressing the institution’s ASUU congress, which was also attended by lecturers from some other neighbouring universities.
Osodeke, who declared that ASUU would not relent in its bid to ensure better funding for universities, decried the Federal Government’s nonchalant attitude towards issues that concern education in the country.
“We also appeal to Nigerians. This matter concerns their lives. In the next five to six months, there will be an election. They should hold their PVCs, and all those who have subjected them to this, they should vote them out.
“It is their right. They should vote them out because children of the masses can’t be at home while children of those leaders will be enjoying education outside the country. That is their right and they should use their PVCs,” These are leaders who borrow money for Trader Moni, they can borrow money to feed schoolchildren in schools, they can borrow to buy vehicles for Niger Republic but they cannot borrow money to fund the universities. Said Sodeke
The ASUU strike enters its 180th day on Friday (today), making it one of the longest in the history of the country.
Osodeke said the plan was not to “suspend the strike but to end it permanently. We want to end strikes permanently in our universities, and that is our demand. That is our desire.”
