Pro-Atiku Group Faults Federal Govt On Unending ASUU Strike

The National Alliance for Atiku and Okowa (NAfAO), a group canvassing for the emergence of former vice president Atiku Abubakar as Nigeria’s next president in 2023, has faulted the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government for what it called its lame duck approach towards resolving the portracted strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The national coordinator of the group, Hon. Inalegwu Adaje, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, described as lackadaisical and hypocritical, the approach of the APC-led government in tackling the over six-month-old industrial action, thereby subjecting parents and students to untold hardships.

He called for the immediate resignation of the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, and his Labour and Productivity counterpart, whose acts and conducts, he said, since the beginning of the action rather than solving the matter have actually succeeded in exercerbating the dispute to the chagrin of Nigerians.

He called on Nigerian students as the leaders of tomorrow to rise up to the challenge and vote former vice president Atiku Abubakar as he has the clear roadmap and pedigree to bring out the Nigerian educational system from it current precarious situation, saying Nigerians have suffered for so long under the current President Muhammadu du Buhari administration.