ASUU Strike – Nigerian Students Reportedly Threaten To Disrupt 2019 General Elections If Nothing Is Done To End The Strike

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has reportedly threatened to disrupt the upcoming 2019 general elections if the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) do not reach an agreement with the Federal Government and call off the long strike which is nearing 3 months.

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While at a peaceful protest yesterday, January 30, 2019, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone B, which included tertiary institutions in the South East and South-South showed their displeasure over the ongoing strike and begged the Federal Government to meet the lecturers’ demands or forget about the elections in a 2 way option.

According to some sources, the students were seen displaying up images with messages which stated “ASUU/ ASUP strike, Another way to increase crime”; “No resumption, no election”; “We are tired of endless negotiations”; “End strike now”; “NANS Zone B wants Her Students back on campuses”; Nigerian Students have bright future; do not truncate it with strike”; “NANS Zone B says no to strike” and “Save education, end strike now.”

Comrade Okereke Godson, while speaking at the protest, NANS zone B coordinator stated that students cannot afford to be at home while the country holds general elections in February 2019.

Comrade Okereke Godson said in a statement that:

“Students constitute 46 percent of the electoral strength in this country and if the federal government fails to end the strike, we see it as a deliberate attempt to rig the poll because the election cannot hold while we remain at home. Let them open our campuses or election will not hold.”

Recall that ASUU declared an indefinite nationwide strike way back on November 4, 2018, at its NEC meeting which was held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) and since then, ASUU and the Federal Government are yet to resolve the crisis of financing the institutions.

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