Stakeholders Urge ASUU to Embrace Dialogue Over Strikes

Stakeholders associated with the Future Nigeria Movement (FNM) have criticised the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for its persistent dependence on strikes as its main strategy for engaging with the Federal Government.

In a statement signed by its national leader, Livingstone Wechie, and distributed in Port Harcourt, the organisation labelled ASUU’s method as unpatriotic and harmful to the country’s progress, urging the union to pursue dialogue instead of industrial actions.

“The recent announcement of a two-week warning strike will further undermine the educational prospects of Nigeria,” FNM asserted.

The group voiced concerns that the strike coincided with ASUU’s own admission of a significant intellectual crisis in public universities, highlighting the departure of 309 professors nationwide as an “intellectual haemorrhage” posing a threat to the sector’s future.

FNM called on the federal government to prioritise ASUU’s requests as a national issue but emphasised that both sides should seek alternative methods of resolving disputes to avert more interruptions in academic activities.