How I solved ASUU issue during my time – Goodluck Jonathan

Former president Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed how he was able to sort out a Four-month ASUU strike during his time as president.

The former president, who spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at the 70th birthday celebration of Matthew Hassan Kukah, said he decided to organize a parley between top government officials and the leadership of the striking lecturers after other methods to resolve the issues failed.

According to him, the meeting took the whole night before they could come to a conclusion as he was determined to sort out the issue.

He said, “The society we are managing is complex, now we are talking about the ASUU strike, during my time too, ASUU had four months of strike, different committees were meeting and meeting and nothing was working. I said how can our children stay out of school for four months? So I had to call a meeting of all the leadership of ASUU.

“I presided over the meeting with my vice president, the Attorney General was there, I said that that night we must solve the problem. The Attorney General was there, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation was there, the minister of education was there, the labour minister was there, the finance minister, everybody that has to do with it.

“And I thought that my being there would help us to do things quickly. But we spent the whole night, before we finished it was like 5:30am, before we concluded and the strike was called off, so there were issues.”