Prolonged ASUU Strike Is the Handiwork of Amaechi and New PDP – Education Minister Says
Chief Nyesom Wike, the Minister of State for Education has accused Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and his cohorts in the new Peoples’ Democratic Party, nPDP, of being behind the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Speaking through the Secretary-General of the Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI, Samuel Nwanosike, Wike also called on well-meaning Nigerians to call Gov. Amaechi to order and stop embarrassing people of Rivers State. These claims were in reaction to a statement credited to Amaechi that rather than focus on the strike embarked upon by ASUU, and recently ASUP, he (Wike) was busy gallivanting campaigning for his governorship ambition. Amaechi had spoken through the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, saying: “ASUU members have been on strike for over three months. ASUP members decided to resume their suspended strike over Federal Government’s insincerity and inability to honour...