ASUU Was On Strike For 900 Days Under PDP Presidents-Keyamo

Spokesman  for the APC  Presidential Campaign Council,  Mr Festus Keyamo, has said  the leading opposition party, the PDP , has its fair share of the blame  with regard to the ongoing  strike by  university lecturers in the country which has entered its sixth month.

 He said  ASUU  had gone  on strike because of the 2009 agreement signed by the Peoples Democratic Party-led government.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned Keyamo  said this  on Monday while appearing as a guest  on Trust TV’s Daily Politics . He added that between 1999 and 2015 ASUU was on strike for 12 times amounting to 900 days.

‘The ASUU thing you are talking about. What is the problem of ASUU now? It’s the 2009 agreement signed by PDP government. They signed agreements with ASUU they couldn’t fulfill. We had to inherit those agreements and now struggling to renegotiate those agreements.

Imagine how irresponsible a government can be when they went into agreements with ASUU and signed conditions that they couldn’t fulfill and this is why ASUU is on strike so let us tell Nigerians that ASUU is not on strike because APC signed an agreement with them. It was the PDP that signed the agreement.

We are not shifting blame; we are going to tackle the problem. Between 1999 and 2015 when they handed over to the  APC, ASUU was on strike 12 times. I have the statistics amounting to 900 days’ he said.

Spokesman for the PDP presidential campaign, Daniel Bwala, who was Keyamo’s co-guest,  however  said during the PDP government when ASUU or any of the labour unions was on strike, there were constructive engagements between the parties.

‘Ask Adams Oshiomole who was the Lord Lugard of labour unionism of that time. He was very blunt, strong and constant on that. In all of those periods when they were on strike either by ASUU or any of the labour unions around the time of PDP, there were constructive engagement, which means all parties were honest, realistic. The argument ASUU is making on all occasions when they were on strike is that this present government has shifted the goalposts’ he said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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