ASUU strike: Union threatens resistance over plans to re-open Universities without agreement

with ASUU or not

As the nation’s universities’ lecturers continue to remain at home to the pain of Nigerian students, it is likely that President Goodluck Jonathan will re-open the universities, with or without coming to term with the Union.
One of the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has said that information before him has confirmed that the president will forcefully reopen the nation’s universities whether he agrees with ASUU or not.
Even though the president and the union will be meeting today to further look at the agreed and disagreed points, the Union had warned that any attempt to reopen the Universities forcefully will amount to illegality and will further complicate the ongoing face-off.
The Union leaders have boasted that such an attempt would fail, as the Union will vehemently resist it.

Speaking on the government’s plan which has been termed plan B, Clement Chup, union chairman for the University of Abuja chapter, said that anything short of following the 2009 agreement would be resisted holistically.
“The attention of our union is drawn to some recent reports in some media alleging that the President of Nigeria will direct the re-opening of all Nigerian universities with or without an amicable resolution with ASUU,” Chup said in a statement.
“Authoritarian posturing has never solved and will not solve the impasse. We are calling on Mr President to toe the path of honor and, as a democrat, respect the 2009 Agreement,” he added. “This is the surest and the shortest route to industrial harmony in the University system and the fastest approach to revitalizing the system.”
Also Nwachukwu Anyim, the chairman of the union’s branch at the University of Uyo, has said in a statement that if the president reopens the Universities, it will be “a show of force” that could only, at best, result in a “pyrrhic victory.”
That phrase means “A victory won at excessive cost,” or “A victory in which the victor’s losses are as great as those of the defeated,”


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