INEC Will meet ASUU on Friday over 2019 Elections
Following the failure of the federal government to find a lasting solution to the lingering strike by public university lecturers, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to hold a meeting with the lecturers’ union, the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) on January 4, ahead of the 2019 polls.

The national president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed the development to newsmen Monday morning.

According to Ogunyemi, the major reason for the meeting is for the union to assist the electoral body in the forthcoming election.

The meeting, according to the electoral body, will be limited to the involvement of their members in the 2019 general elections.

Ogunyemi said the meeting will hold in Abuja.

ASUU embarked on an industrial action on November 4 to protest the poor funding of Nigerian universities and an alleged plan by the federal government to increase students’ fees and introduce an education bank.

But INEC had raised an alarm that the lingering ASUU strike would no doubt have a serious impact on the preparations for the conduct of the 2019 elections.

“They are one critical resource and their absence will have adverse effects on the ad hoc staff requirement of INEC,” the commission had said.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) disagreed with the statement by INEC that the strike by university lecturers could jeopardise the 2019 elections saying, “the ongoing national strike by ASUU has nothing to do with the 2019 elections.”



However, a national daily reported INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education and Publicity, Festus Okoye, saying the commission is hopeful and positive that its scheduled meeting with the leadership of ASUU and the leadership of other unions in federal tertiary institutions on Friday would yield the desired result.

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NANS Gives Federal Government and ASUU Two Weeks
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given a notice of two weeks ultimatum to the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to stop the ongoing strike action or face the full wrath of Nigerian students. This was contained in a statement signed by the association’s president, Danielson Akpan.

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The statement reads, “The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), after a holistic critique of the lingering industrial actions embarked upon by the academic staff of our tertiary institution has issued a TWO WEEKS ULTIMATUM to both the FG and ASUU to call off the lingering strike or face the full wrath of angry Nigerian students.”

The president equally frowned at the fact that the Acadmic Staff Union of Universities resisted vehemently, the idea of having students’ representatives during the negotiation meeting and rather prefer to have closed door meetings with Federal Ministry of Education and the leaders of the Union.

The union leader said the strike has affected students academics, the accumulating cost of accommodation and could disenfranchise students from participating in the 2019 general elections.

He threatened a mass protest across the country and the mobilisation of 100,000 students for a protest in Abuja.

“They must be ready to pay back monetary compensations to Nigerian students from their salaries that continue to count even when they are not working at all, at our detriment,” he added

“We are determined to carry out these actions to the fullest, if our campuses are not reopened at the expiration of this ultimatum. We therefore urge the FG and ASUU not to test our resolve as Nigerian students have been patient and (have been) taken for granted for far too long,” Mr Akpan said.

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