Appealing to ASUU, he urged them not to hurt the next generations with their strike action.
For several months now, ASUU has been on strike since February 14, following government’s unwillingness to fulfill their demands.
ASUU is demanding the adoption of UTAS as a payment platform for its members and the implementation of the renegotiated 2009 agreement.
President Buhari who was speaking when he received some governors of the All Progressives Congress, legislators, and other political leaders at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, on Monday, hoped that the union will sympathize with the people and the country.
“I hope an institution like ASUU will sympathize with the people and country. there is nothing wring showing the government and the leadership that you don’t like what they are doing. But enough is enough. Don’t hurt the next generation for goodness sake. So, those of you who have friends that are teachers and who are influential or not, please persuade them to go back to classes so that our children can resume their education.”
However, ASUU responding to the president’s speech said enough can’t be enough and that “until the president moves to reposition the decaying public university education in the country.”
In a statement signed by the coordinator of ASUU, Adelaja Odukoya said;
“For the records Mr President, enough will not be enough in the struggle to reposition the public university education in Nigeria under this present administration and beyond as long as the Nigerian public universities are reduced to glorified secondary schools for the production of poor quality and globally uncompetitive, rejected and unemployable graduates; Nigerian academics remain one of the poorest paid scholars not only in Africa but the world; our universities are unattractive to students and scholars from across the globe; universities in the countries are made constituency projects and mushroomed for political exigencies; Nigerian universities, no thanks to IPPIS are run as government parastatals; Nigerian universities are seen as profit- centres where government and its functionaries can obtain money to fund its excessive gastronomical greed.”
