The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) has met with the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) ,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
President of the union, Comrade Sunday Asefon,who led students delegation to Tinubu,begged him to intervene in the impasse in the interest of the nation.
His leadership ,he said,will leave no stone unturned to ensure will end perennial varsity teachers strike in Nigeria.
He said in a statement that:” In our continuous efforts in advocating for the end of the prolonged ASUU Strike, I led the National Executives of NANS and stakeholders to meet with the Presidential Aspirant of the APC to annex his contacts and capacity to prevail on ASUU and the Federal Government to put an end to the protracted industrial action. It is our believe that no stone must be left unturned in ensuring that ASUU return back to the classroom.
“We had fruitful engagements and Asiwaju who passionately expressed his concerns and his efforts in the past during similar strike action commended the students leaders for their initiatives to engage in high level advocacy and seek political solution.
” He shared in our position that every reasonable Nigerian must be seriously concerned as the continuous strike poses a great danger to security and collective well being of our nation. Nigerian students expressed our deepest appreciation to Asiwaju for cutting short his very tight schedule and campaign activities to address our leadership and made strong commitment to the end of the strike.”
In his remarks,Tinubu empathised with Nigerian students and promised to continue to engage with us and youth organisations across the country to tap into our strength, ideas and creativities in the days ahead while ensuring that youth and students forms integral part of his programs.
Asiwaju promised to immediately step up his interventions, even now that the President has opened the window for individual contributions to dialogues in pursuit of the end of the industrial action.
“We have reached a stage in this struggle where the end is more important to us than the means and as leaders we will not do less than our very best to ensure the end of the strike.” Tinubu said .