With the ongoing ASUU strike entering its
5th month, President Goodluck
Jonathan is about to re-open the
Universities with or without ASUU.
According to Scan-News ,
In a last ditch effort to resolve the
ASUU strike, President Goodluck
Jonathan will on Monday, November
4, meet with the leadership of ASUU
at the Presidential Villa.
An official of the Vice President’s
office who pleaded anonymity told
Scan News that the President will at
next Monday’s meeting present to the
ASUU leadership the administration’s
last concession for them to call off the
prolonged strike.
But if ASUU
ails to call off, the Federal Government will
then resort to plan B, which will be to
compulsorily open the universities, using
the instrumentality of the governing
councils and the school managements.
Already, most of the governing councils of
the universities have started meeting to
work out modalities for the compulsory re-
opening of the universities should ASUU
fail to honour the personal request of
President Jonathan.
Scan News gathered that the Supervising
Minister of Education, Barr.
Nyesom Wike and the Vice Chancellors of
Public Universities also discussed the re-
opening of the schools last Monday. Most
of the Vice Chancellors suggested the
compulsory re-opening of the schools,
should the last ditch efforts fail.
It was gathered that security report
available to the Presidency may have
necessitated this line of action to salvage
the universities system from the direction
it is facing at prese
