The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke on Monday stated the lingering strike would be called off in few days.
Osodeke disclosed this at a meeting with the leadership of the house of representatives.
According to Osodeke, “Please, let all of us work together to put a beautiful end to this. We have started, so that every Nigerian will be proud that we have universities we can be proud of”
“Once again, I want to thank you. I also extend our appreciation to the president for intervening, I want to appeal that in the future, we should not allow strike to linger. Strike should not go beyond two days.
“If the way the national assembly has intervened, if we had done that long ago, or those in charge of labour and education had done exactly this, we would not be where we are today. We would not have stayed more than two or three weeks on this strike. There is strike all over the world — UK, US, all over — but they don’t allow it to last.
“So, once again, thank you very much and we hope that working together, in the next few days, we can put an end to this particular imbroglio in the Nigerian educational system.”
Osodeke noted that the final resolution to call off the strike will be taken by the National Executive Council meeting after signing relevant documents, on Tuesday.
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