The National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), has threatened to frustrate all political gatherings by the two major parties and activities leading to the selection of candidates if the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), is not called off.
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The association condemned politicians for showing no concern for the plight of the students but being busy pursuing their ‘selfish and inordinate ambitions’ to become the next president while students stay at home with no solution in sight.
In an issued statement yesterday, the association said, “Without mincing words, the two major political parties (APC and PDP) should forget any political gathering in Abuja or elsewhere except there is a solution to the lingering ASUU strike.
They tasked the government and the politicians, to either resolve the ASUU crisis or give direct orders to the security operatives to shoot us during party conventions to select presidential candidates.
The association further noted that it has given mediators time to prevail on the Federal Government to resolve issues with ASUU and ensure students resume to their different campuses but “it seems all mediation failed or failing as the case may be”.
It further alleged that some students have been compromised, adding: “we will fish out and punish such students. If the politicians holding the trust of the country are only concerned about the next election, we are more concerned about the next generation; and if there is no next generation, elections will soon go into extinction”.
“End ASUU strike now or forget about party primaries”, the statement further read.
It is almost three months since ASUU embarked on strike. Recall that the union had on March 14, at the expiration of its four-week warning strike which it declared on February 14, extended the strike by two months. It has vowed to continue the strike until all its demands are met.
