Beg lecturers to call off ASUU strike – Presidency tells Nigerians

The Presidency has told Nigerians to persuade the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off the ongoing industrial strike.

The senior spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said the president was committed to putting an end to the ongoing industrial strike.

The university lecturers union last week declared an extension of the industrial strike for one month.

While reacting over the weekend in Abuja, the country capital, Garba Shehu reaffirmed that the Federal Government was working to find solution to the face-off.

“It came like a bolt in the sky. We are shocked because it came at a time when the president is giving full commitment to resolving the ASUU strike and having the students and teachers back in the school.

“The extension, I believe, should not have been done because the spirit in which the government now is trying to resolve the problems of ASUU is such that there should also be a benefit of the doubt in favour of the government on the part of ASUU.

“The strike is unnecessarily extended and this should not have been the case. I want to advise parents to join the government in begging ASUU to end this strike, as the government is doing its part and parents are worried and they should start talking to ASUU,” he said.

ASUU has embarked on strike since February 2022.