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Keyamo Accuses PDP Led Government For ASUU Strike -READ WHY

Thompson Nsisongabasi

Aug 16, 2022

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, 2009 PDP-led government for being the reason for the current ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities strike.

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According to the APC Presidential Campaign Council Spokesperson, the PDP government during its tenure was unable to meet up with agreements signed with ASUU in 2009.

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

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While speaking with Trust TV he said: "The ASUU thing you are talking about. What is the problem of ASUU now? It's the 2009 agreement signed by the PDP government. They signed agreements with ASUU that they couldn't fulfil. We had to inherit those agreements and now are struggling to renegotiate those agreements.

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"Imagine how irresponsible a government can be when they went into agreements with ASUU and signed conditions that they couldn't fulfil 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."

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