Why We May Soon End Strike – ASUU President

Popoola Ademola

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke has said that there is Hope for the union to end its strike soon, after the intervention of the leadership of the House of representatives.

Osodeke made this disclosure during a meeting led by the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and his team on Monday.

“Once again, I want to thank you, I also extend our appreciation to the president for intervening, I want to appeal that in the future, we should not allow strike to linger. Strike should not go beyond two days.” He said

“Please, let all of us work together to put a beautiful end to this thing we have started, so that every Nigerian will be proud that we have universities we can be proud of.”

“If the way the National Assembly has intervened, if we had done that long ago, or those in charge of labour and education had done exactly this, we would not be where we are today.”

“We would not have stayed more than two or three weeks on this strike. There is strike all over the world, UK, US, all over, but they don’t allow it to last.”

“Basically, the meeting was called at the request of the speaker to brief the union about the intervention of the House with President Muhammadu Buhari on the union strike.” He added.