ASUU ready to Negotiate as long as Vice President Osibanjo is involved

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to have another session of negotiation with the Government, guaranteed the President, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari directs his second in command, the person of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to take over its negotiations.

This is due in part the believed notion that the Ministers that have been at helm of the negotiation proceedings, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, have been unable to make things work for both sides of the divide.

The call by the union comes two days after Vice President Osinbajo at the commemoration of international workers’ day, had urged ASUU to embrace dialogue with the federal government in view of ending the strike action while also pleading on the NLC and TUC to facilitate a truce.

The release comes from a tweet post by ASUU on its official Twitter account on Tuesday May 3, 2022.

This is in direct response to the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who in a message had asked ASUU to trust the federal government, and suspend its strike action before negotiations continued.

Osinbajo on his part as government representative had addressed parents on the idea that the government was not heedless of the anxieties of the children and pleaded on the national labour union to facilitate a dialogue.

He noted that both the government and the union are a connected part of the same progressive family, stressing that a dialogue was the only resolution to the squabble.

Meanwhile, in ASUU’s defense, they filed in a report some days back alleging that the Federal Government was using the no-work-no-pay policy to make lecturers go hungry, and force them to resumption under toxic climates.