ASUU STRIKE: FORGET 2019 ELECTIONS, STUDENTS TELL BUHARI, FG
As the protracted industrial dispute between the federal government and the ASUU lingers, students in institutions of higher learning in the country, have vowed to disrupt the 2019 general elections if the FG failed to resolve the ongoing strike embarked upon by ASUU and ASUP.
The students, operating under the umbrella of National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, also claimed that about 22.3million students would be disenfranchised if the ongoing strike continues.According to the students, the three-month-old strike, apart from hindering their academic pursuits, has also disenfranchised about 22.3million of them. FORGET 2019 ELECTIONS
“The continuous strike action by both ASUU and ASUP has not only brought increased pain on students and their parents, but it is also now seen by us as a deliberate ploy to disenfranchise our members, especially those who registered within their school environments, and are present in their various homes.
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“Consequently, Nigerian students have decided to take their destinies in their hands; enough of the politics being played with our future. We wish to inform the general public that Nigerian students would resist any election from holding in any part of the country should our campuses remain closed till election date; and on no account shall we allow this sinister disenfranchisement of the largest voting population of our citizens in a major election to pass due to no fault of theirs. We have 22.3 million registered students, eligible to change the destiny of the nation. We refused to be sacrificed in exercising this obligatory duty to our nation at this crucial moment. Our voices must be heard and our votes must count. FORGET 2019 ELECTIONS
“After careful observation of the continued insensitive shut down of our universities due to the strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics wish to unapologetically declare Operation no resumption, no election,’ Akpan added.
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