University of Abuja students threaten to withdraw support for ASUU strike

Students of the University of Abuja on Monday, staged a peaceful protest over the current Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) strike action, describing it as selfish.Mr Nathan Oguwike, leader of the Students In Nigeria Re-awakening Initiative (STIRIN), a non-governmental organisation in the university, said students were tired of staying at home.Oguwike said ASUU should stop using students for bargain and urged them to immediately call off the strike to avoid further suffering on the part of students.

According to him, students will no longer support the action of ASUU, which he described as a selfish one.
‘’In this continuous strike action, ASUU is just being selfish because the students’ interest are not being protected.‘’We have been patient enough and now we see that they are not ready to shift ground; neither is the Federal Government ready to meet all their demands. We are therefore, saying enough is enough.

‘’ASUU should go and settle their differences with the government in court, we do not want to be part of iAll we want is to return to class,’’ he said.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students first converged at the university mini campus before moving out to town, where they were later disbanded by the police.