Lagos APC berates PDP over continued ASUU strike

The Lagos State chapter of the All
Progressives Congress has said that the
inability of the Federal Government to find
a solution to the ongoing ASUU strike by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities
shows that the Peoples Democratic Party-
led administration lacks ideas on how to
move Nigeria forward.
In a statement by the state interim
Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe
Igbokwe, the party said PDP's
indifference had led to the continued
deterioration of the nation's educational
sector.
It called on the Federal Government to
accede to the demands of ASUU without
delay so that students could resume their
halted education.
The APC said, "We have been watching as
the PDP-led Federal Government treats
the demands of ASUU with unseriousness
and levity.
"The demand is simply for the Federal
Government to implement agreements it
freely entered into in the past with ASUU.
But we note that with each passing day,
members of the PDP seek to trivialise the
demands and input ludicrous reasons for
the strike, even as members of ASUU
have insisted that the strike is because
the government has refrained from
fulfilling its part of the agreements on how
to improve the present poor standard of
education in Nigeria.
"We are left to wonder why a profligate
government and party would allow the
ASUU strike to fester the way it is doing
over the demand for better funding of
Nigerian universities.
"We, of Lagos APC, decry in the strongest
terms, the attitude of the PDP, as a party
and the PDP-led Federal Government to
the ASUU strike. We see this as one of the
many proofs of the incompetence of the
PDP in governing Nigeria."
The APC said the Federal Government
should "immediately accept the demands
of ASUU and start the implementation" to
allow lecturers to go back to work.
The party urged Nigerians to "compel the
PDP government to stop the present
neglect of the educational sector" by
adequate funding of the sector as being
demanded by ASUU.

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