Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has charged striking lecturers in public universities to brace up for a long strike.
Professor Ogunyemi enjoined ASUU members “to be on the watch and prepare for a long drawn out struggle to salvage the university system”.
The ASUU president stated this in a Strike Bulletin No. 5 sent to all members of the union, a copy of which was obtained by journalists in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on Wednesday.
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He charged members to remain steadfast “and resolute in the face of intimidation or antics employed by government through vice chancellors and governing councils to undermine the ongoing struggle”.
According to ASUU President, “Government is yet to change its ‘keep them talking’ style and stance as all the meetings held so far with the minister of education are yet to resolve any of the demands of ASUU”.
Also speaking after their zonal meeting at Ladoke Akintola University, ASUU chairman, University of Ibadan, Dr. Deji Omole, said Ibadan zone of ASUU has been fully mobilised with her members to ensure the reason for the strike gets actualised.
Omole noted that it is regrettable that the Federal Government that has not put anything on the table for revitalising the comatose education sector is busy mobilising funds for re-election in 2019.
He, however, appealed to parents not to mortgage the future of their children by fighting for proper and adequate funding of public education.
ASUU had on November 4 embarked on an indefinite strike over poor funding of Nigerian universities and non-implementation of previous agreements by government.
The meeting between the Federal Government and (ASUU) on Tuesday ended without any conclusion.
