ASUU Strike Under Buhari’s Govt. Hits 584 Days, Longest ever

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has set an unenviable document of 584 days and nonetheless counting because the variety of days Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have gone on strike since 2015.

The nationwide president of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, on Tuesday, August 16 said that there are hopes that the lecturers would return to their lecture room as the problems of IPPIS and UTAS have been put to relaxation as agreed with the federal authorities accepting to implement the UTAS cost system.

Nonetheless, with latest growth, ASUU will wait on its nationwide government council (NEC) assembly on Sunday, August 28 to resolve the following line of motion both to name off the strike or in any other case.

Below the President Buhari-led authorities, ASUU has laid down instruments nearly in seven years of the eight years of the administration. It was solely in 2015 that his administration recorded a zero strike of the lecturers.

In 2016, ASUU went on strike for 7 days, and in 2017 it witnessed 35days of the strike. In 2018, ASUU downed instruments for 19 days and this continued until February 8, 2019. 2020 witnessed a whopping 9 months of ASUU strike following its disagreement with the federal authorities over the funding of the colleges and implementation of the cost system.

Many Nigerians thought that the general public universities had been going to expertise a strike–free educational periods having come off the pandemic trauma in 2020 just for this ugly educational monster to step on stage once more on February 14, 2022, and is now on its 185 days and nonetheless counting.

President Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight years administration didn’t entice as many strikes as seen in Buhari’s seven years and a few months. ASUU went on strike for 541 days beneath Obasanjo’s administration.

From 2007 to 2010 President Umar Yar’dua, ASUU had 127 days of strike motion. The quick former President Goodluck Jonathan’s authorities from 2010 to 2015 skilled 359 days of ASUU strike.

ASUU has maintained amongst different issues that the federal authorities should implement the renegotiated 2009 settlement, jettison the Built-in Payroll and Personnel Info System (IPPIS) for the College Transparency Accountability Answer (UTAS), and many others.

Many Nigerians are nervous that the federal authorities beneath the management of President Buhari is wasteful.