Ngige misinforming the president about ASUU strike – ASUU President, Osodeke

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is being misinformed by the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige about the union’s strike.

President Buhari in a recent statement had said enough is enough. He said the strike was negatively affecting both parents and their children

Osodeke during an interview on Channels Television said the president would not have made such a comment if he had been properly informed.

“If the president had been properly briefed by the committee through the minister of education, I don’t think the president would have said enough is enough, go to your class while we are negotiating,” he said.

“It is the labour minister and his group that would have gone to the president to tell him that if we chase out his people, we refuse salary.

“We are not aware of where their so-called figure arrives from. In all our agreement and discussion, we didn’t talk about 1.2 trillion or 2.4 trillion, or whatever. We didn’t.

“We didn’t calculate the quantum of what we would need. We calculated what each member of our union will earn.

“If this man who is telling you this figure can tell a lie that ASUU chased out his members from the negotiation table, why would he not tell a lie about the figure.

“The ministry is churning out fake figures. We negotiated with the ministry of education, so wherever they got the documents is their business.”