Strike: Tinubu Camp Slams ASUU Over Strike, Says They’re Unreasonable

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has come under fire from the Tinubu Campaign Organization (TCO) for the ongoing strike.

According to Anaedoonline.ng, ASUU had already declared its intention to turn the roll-over strike it had been on since February into an indefinite strike in response to the government’s refusal to grant all of its requests.

The aim of the whole and thorough strike, according to the striking teachers, is to prevent the demise of public universities and improve the institutions’ facilities.

UPDATE: ASUU Reveals Why They Went On Indefinite Strike

The union’s demands include paying earned allowances, providing universities with revitalization funding, setting up visiting panels, and using the University Transparency Accountability Solution to pay ivory tower employees rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

The spokesman for the Tinubu Campaign Organization, Bayo Onanuga, claimed that ASUU was being unreasonable by going on an indefinite strike in an interview with Newsmen.

He asserted that the union extended the ongoing strike for political purposes, despite the federal government’s decision to meet with ASUU and allay their concerns.

Onanuga claimed that the ASUU leadership is heartless and is pulling down the country’s educational system because they are greedy for more money.

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He said: “Looking at ASUU’s position to extend the strike, the government has decided to meet them and assuage their worries. Maybe they are doing it for political reasons.

“ASUU has so far shown that it is unreasonable. How can a union resolve to embark on a protracted strike? Our children, who are supposed to spend four years, end up spending six or seven years solely because of the ASUU strike. I think the leadership of ASUU is callous, bringing our education to its knees because they want more money.

“People should talk to ASUU. The government has said, ‘It is not that we don’t want to give you more money. We have X amount of money. There are so many things we need to spend money on, and we can’t just give everything to the universities.

“ASUU has also been reminded that every state or federal university has its own autonomy. It has a governing council at that level. Why can’t they try to find a way to solve some of the problems?”

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Onanuga, however, expressed optimism that the protracted ASUU crisis will not affect the campaign of its principal, Bola Tinubu.

He added: “Who created the ASUU crisis? Buhari inherited the ASUU crisis. In fact, the agreement that caused the strike was done under the PDP administration. They agreed to it just to pacify ASUU, perhaps to get their votes, but Buhari has tried to implement many of the provisions in the agreement because the government is a continuum.

“He has tried to implement it, but ASUU keeps shifting the goalpost. The government is still not folding its hands. They have been talking to them and making them see the benefits of what the government can do to improve university education.

“We believe that our people are reasonable. The issues have been tabled. Everybody knows what is happening, and they know they can’t hang anything on our candidate.

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“As I said earlier, this problem was inherited by Buhari due to a controversial agreement signed six years before he came into power. Can the PDP blame the problem they created themselves and couldn’t resolve for six years on Tinubu?”

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