The Abubakar Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party,
nPDP, has commenced a seven-day fasting and prayer
starting from today, in a bid to find a permanent
solution to the impasse between the federal government
and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
following the strike action by the university lecturers.
To ensure its effectiveness, the new PDP has requested
all its members worldwide to embark on the exercise, as
it says the spiritual intervention was as a result of the
concern of the Baraje-led PDP for the plight of parents
and university students due to the continued closure of
public universities.
The group also said that the move was designed to
protest what it described as the Federal Government’s
failure to keep the agreement it signed with the union in
2009.
Meanwhile, Alhaji Baraje has set up a four-man
Committee to be chaired by Governor Babangida Aliyu of
Niger State to advise the party on the best way to get
the Federal Government’s negotiating committee and
the leadership of ASUU to reach an agreement on the
issues at stake and thus end the three-month-old
strike.
Other members of the committee are Governor Murtala
Nyako of Adamawa State, Chinwo Ike, President of
UNIPORT Alumni, and Mr. Timi Frank, the nPDP National
Youth Leader.
“We sincerely solicit the patience of Nigerians while
appealing to the Federal Government and the leadership
of ASUU to end this imbroglio so that our children may
go back to school instead of engaging in acts inimical to
their future.
“The need for this has become urgent as reports
reaching us indicate that many of these students have
out of frustration and boredom turned to prostitution,
armed robbery and other vices due to the prolonged
strike,” the group said.
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