Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, says the Federal Government can meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities with the income it generates from the sale of crude oil in just one month but the government of the day does not have the political will to solve the problem.
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, spoke on Monday at the National Retreat of the party in Abuja.
Similarly, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said the people behind oil theft are known by the government and that, they have enablers within government, adding that Nigeria is the only oil-producing nation that has not installed the metre that gives accurate data on how barrels of crude oil leave Nigeria.
Also seaking, at the Labour Party event on Monday, the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, said the union, its affiliates and political commissions across the 774 wards in Nigeria will mobilise its members at the grassroots to achieve victory for Obi in next year’s presidential elections.
Recall that, public universities in the country have been shut down for about seven months since February 14 when ASUU embarked on its industrial action.
News reports had it that, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Monday adjourned to September 16, 2022 the suit filed by the Federal Government against ASUU over the seven-month strike
