The National Alliance for Atiku and Okowa (NAfAO), a group canvassing for the emergence of former vice president Atiku Abubakar as Nigeria’s next president in 2023, has told the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, to resign from office over the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
In a statement on Wednesday by Inalegwu Adaje, the National Coordinator of the group, obtained by POLITICS NIGERIA, NAfAO accused the ministers of worsening the FG-ASUU crisis.
“We are calling for the immediate resignation of the minister of education Mallam Adamu Adamu, and his labour and productivity counterparts, Chris Ngige whose acts and conducts since the beginning of the action rather than solving the matter have actually succeeded in exacerbating the dispute to the chagrin of Nigerians.
“We are also calling on Nigerian students as the Leaders of tomorrow to rise up to the challenge and vote for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as he has the clear roadmap and pedigree to bring out the Nigerian educational system from its current precarious situation because Nigerians have suffered for so long under this regime,” the statement by the group reads in part.
Since February 14, ASUU has been on strike in support of a number of demands, including enhanced welfare, the revitalisation of public universities, and academic autonomy.
