BREAKING: ASUU Extends Strike Further
The on⁶going ASUU strike has been extended after a heated session.
The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday.
A reliable who is currently attending the meeting told our correspondent that the union is currently divided about whether to sustain the demands the union has put before government or sustain the fight until all its prayers are met.
The source who is a frontline member of the Union in one of the federal universities located in North Central Nigeria said ASUU Cahirman is under pressure to call a truce and return to classrooms.
The source noted that the union is refusing to yield because of its past experience with government which has reneged past promises.
“Apart from pending issues of allowance and the back-and-forth about whether government would pay backlog of arrears of salaries owed our members, there are commitments that are to the benefits of Nigerian universities that we are not getting.
“Ironically, these things are not to the benefits of any individual lecturer, but that of the universities,” he said.
Principal officers and branch chairmen arrived Abuja for the make or mar crucial NEC meeting and determine the fate of millions of Nigerian students who have been at home since February 14, 2022.
Ahead of the crucial meeting, branch congresses were held on Tuesday and Wednesday across the universities and the resolutions would be discussed at the NEC meeting.
Already, some state universities such as Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),Ogbomoso and Delta State University, pulled out of the ongoing strike. Lagos State University, Osun State University and others did not participate in the strike.
Another close source said, “Aside two universities that voted against the continuation of the industrial action, many others have backed the declaration of indefinite strike as against the roll-over that the union commenced in February 14 2022”
Ngnews 247 gathered that the Federal Government is mounting serious pressure on ASUU leadership using prominent Nigerians for the suspension of its six-month strike.
One of the branch chairmen who spoke on condition of anonymity said that NEC decision would be known by Monday and acknowledged the lobby by some prominent Nigerians on behalf of the government to bring the strike to and end.