Strike: ASUU Accuses Ngige Of Lying To President Buhari

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has condemned the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige for lying to President Muhammadu Buhari about the ongoing industrial action.

ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, speaking on Channels TV's, Sunrise Daily on Thursday, accused Ngige of lying to the President that members of the union dismissed government officials during their negotiation. 

Osodeke added that the minister was also giving out wrong figures to the President, claiming ASUU demanded such from the government.
 
“If the president had been properly briefed by the committee through the Minister of Education, I don’t think the president would have said enough is enough, go to your class while we are negotiating.

“It is the labour minister and his group that have gone to the president to tell him that we chased out his people and that we refused salaries.

“We are not aware of where their so-called figure arrives from.

"In all our agreement and discussion, we didn’t talk about 1.2 trillion or 2.4 trillion, or whatever. We didn’t.

“The ministry is churning out fake figures. We negotiated with the ministry of education, so wherever they got the documents is their business,” he explained.

The strike by the members of ASUU which became five months old today began on February 14, 2022. 

President Buhari had recently appealed to the union to consider the future of Nigerian students and call off the lingering strike.