ASUU:- STUDENTS BEG PRESIDENT JONATHAN TO WADE INTO ASUU STRIKE....

Students of the Ebonyi State
University (EBSU) on Friday begged
President Gooodluck Jonathan to wade into
the lingering ASUU and Federal Government
crisis.
The students said that they looked up to Mr
President to personally intervene in the face-
off.
Mr Louis Onwe, a 300-level biochemistry
student said: His intervention into the
ongoing crisis will lead to timely resolution
of the impasse and resumption of academic
work.’’
He said that since the president enjoyed
enormous goodwill with the union, it would
listen to him if he intervened personally in news copy 4rm na ijahero . Net
the face-off.
“ASUU demands are quite germane as it will
boost research and development of
infrastructures in the universities,’’ Onwe
said.
Mr Kelechukwu Anyigor, also a 300-level
student of biochemistry, said they were
optimistic that Jonathan’s intervention was
needed to quickly resolve the strike.
“Our president enjoys tremendous goodwill
because of his human rights records, and
his attempt to reposition the countrys
economy.It is our candid belief that if he personally
intervenes in the matter, ASUU will listen to
him in the interest of the students and the
nation at large Anyigor ,said.
Mr Michael Otuu of the Department of
Business Administration, called on the
president to rise above politics and wade
into the crisis in the interest of Nigerian
students and university education.
According to him, the indefinite strike
already in its fifth week is having a negative
toll on the academic pursuit of university
students in the country.
Otuu called on well meaning Nigerians to
prevail on the federal government to accede
to the demands of ASUU in the interest of
industrial harmony in the system.
The National President of ASUU, Dr Isa
Fagge, declared a nationwide indefinite
strike on July 1 to protest the failure of the
government to honour the 2009
agreements it reached with ASUU. (NAN)