President of the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has reacted to NANS president comment over the ongoing industrial action. Prof. Osodeke said that the union did not ask for students\u2019 help before it embarked on a strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recall that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) President, Sunday Asefon, had said that students would no longer support the union\u2019s call for intervention and accused the ASUU body of being self-serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reacting to the comment by the students\u2019 leadership while speaking in an interview on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, Osodeke said students who have been kept at home because of the industrial action had not supported the union\u2019s struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his words, \u201cAny day students and parents take over this struggle, ASUU body will not have this problem. Had they supported any of our struggles apart from going from one office to another? So leave that alone. Go and ask students in the street, not those leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat are we saying? Are our universities good? The public primary and secondary schools are dead but the teachers didn\u2019t fight. As I speak with you, even with what we have now, we still have 99% of students in public universities because of our struggle. And students will say \u2018we are not supporting you.\u2019 Did we ask for your support when we started this struggle?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne, the government should tell Nigerians and us that the money alleged to have been approved for revitalization. How much is it and where is it lodged, and when will it be released?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTwo, UTAS as means of paying salary, have they approved that?u Three, have they accepted the agreement we reached with their panel? They should come and tell us this not just going to press.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: dailypost.ng<\/p>\n\n\n\n #EduSAVINGS#EduLOANS#EduSURE#INTERNSHIP#SCHOLARSHIP#EduHEALTHMAINTAINANCE#ENTERPRENUERSHIP#PressPayNg#TERTIARY#EDUCATION#TUITION#FEES#UNIVERSITY#POLYTECHNIC#MONOTECHNIC#FELLOWSHIP#COLLEGEOFEDUCATION#HOLIDAYJOBS#SOFTSKILLSTRAINING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President of the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has reacted to NANS president comment over the ongoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n