ASUU dismisses Buhari’s two-week ultimatum

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the two-week ultimatum issued by the president to resolve the concerns raised by the union is too much.

ASUU chairman, Emmanuel Osodeke, spoke in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen.

Osodeke believed that it will not take more than two days to address their grievances.

The ASUU president who described the president’s action as a welcome development said giving such directive is not new.

Osodeke believed the government is still unserious with the lingering strike by the university lecturers.

President Muhammadu Buhari had met with the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, and relevant members of his cabinet where he received briefings on the current face-off between the government and university unions, including ASUU.

At the meeting, he directed the education minister to proffer a solution to the continued industrial action by the lecturers and report back to him in two weeks.