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ASUU is on strike because of agreement signed by PDP – Keyamo

Spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Festus Keyamo, has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party for the ongoing ASUU strike in the country.

Speaking in an interview on Trust TV’s Daily Politics on Monday August 15, Keyamo said ASUU is on strike because of the 2009 agreement signed by the Peoples Democratic Party-led government.

He claimed that between 1999 and 2015 when the PDP handed over to the ruling APC, ASUU was on strike 12 times, amounting to 900 days.

He said; 

“The ASUU thing you are talking about. What is the problem with ASUU now? It’s the 2009 agreement signed by the PDP government. They signed agreements with ASUU they couldn’t fulfill. We had to inherit those agreements and now are struggling to renegotiate those agreements.

Imagine how irresponsible a government can be when they went into agreements with ASUU and signed conditions that they couldn’t fulfill and that is why ASUU is on strike so let us tell Nigerians that ASUU is not on strike because APC signed an agreement with them. It was the PDP that signed the agreement.

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We are not shifting blame; we are going to tackle the problem. Between 1999 and 2015 when they handed over to the  APC, ASUU was on strike 12 times. I have the statistics amounting to 900 days.”

Reacting to the claim, spokesperson for the (PDP) presidential campaign, Daniel Bwala, who appeared on Trust TV alongside Keyamo, said during the PDP government, there were constructive engagements between the parties when ASUU or any of the labour unions was on strike.

He said; 

“Ask Adams Oshimole who was the Lord Lugard of labour unionism of that time. He was very blunt, strong and constant on that. In all of those periods when they were on strike either by ASUU or any of the labour unions around the time of PDP, there was constructive engagement, which means all parties were honest, realistic. The argument ASUU is making is that on all occasions when they were on strike this present government shifted the goal post..”

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