President Goodluck Jonathan: ASUU Should Temper Anger With Patriotism

President Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call-off their four-month old industrial action. Jonathan made the plea while commissioning the Faculty of Engineering Complex building of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti yesterday.

Jonathan urged ASUU members to review their industrial action and go back to class. The president said his regime was working assiduously to meet the lecturers’ demands.

The president reasoned that if ASUU members have genuine and patriotic mind towards pressing home their demands, four months was enough in achieving this.

”I urge every patriotic Nigerian to plead with  ASUU to suspend their strike action and resume class.”I promise to work with all Nigerians, whatever inadequacies we have with education,we are seriously working towards solving it.”ASUU should temper their anger with patriotism.”Long strike will definitely ground our educational sector.”If you are talking to government and government is not listening, or  government is not cooperating with you, that is a different thing entirely.

The president promised that his government was steadily trying to solve the problems confronting other sectors of the economy ,including education by providing infrastructural facilities.

From: Vanguard