Controversial activist and presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore, has advised Nigerian students to begin demonstrating their dissatisfaction with the ongoing strike action by ASUU through a mass action that would ground everything in the country until the crisis is resolved.
Writing on his Twitter page on Monday, he urged public universities’ students to teach “inhuman” political rulers a “big lesson” by commencing a mass action.
‘Nigerian youths/students must teach these inhuman political rulers playing Russian roulette with their future a BIG lesson. Let the organising start now, shut down everything with mass action, stop everything until our higher institutions are well funded #WeCantContinueLikeThis. They’re doing this because their kids don’t attend Nigerian universities!,’ he wrote.
In a related development, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has also lambasted the Federal Government for mortgaging the future of Nigerian youths with the prolonged strike.
Speaking in Lagos at his 52nd birthday ceremony, Adams expressed concern over the failure of government to resolve the lecturers’ strike, stressing Nigeria students should not be allowed to stay at home for another 12 weeks due to the misunderstanding.
Adams asserted that the future of the country depends on the way the government handled the education sector and urged that the deficits in the sector be effectively addressed by Governments at all levels.
‘I feel bad whenever I looked back and see that the university students are still at home. This affects their thinking and that actually portend grave danger to us as a nation,’ he said.
Speaking on his annual scholarship designed to encourage indigent students from four universities in the South West, Adams said it became a tradition to bolster the hope of the students as a way of encouraging the students.