The African Action Congress (AAC) has reacted to an alleged plan by the Federal Government to proscribe the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as a way of ending the protracted strike, describing the plan as outrageous and unacceptable.
The party also took the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to the cleaners for thinking of handing over federal universities to the state governments.
A statement issued by the party quoted media reports to the effect that the Federal Government was considering proscribing ASUU as a way of ending the prolonged strike by the union, now in the seventh month.
The party, in the statement signed by Onyinye-Gandhi Chukwunyere, AAC Presidential Campaign Spokesperson, while lambasting the All Progressives Congress (APC) controlled Federal Government for its alleged contempt for the education of Nigerians, said the proscription threat is not only draconian but an unconstitutional measure to blackmail and bully ASUU into submission.
It maintained that the crisis in the nation’s educational sector was merely a reflection of the larger, multi-sectoral failures of the APC, in which its hold on power had been an absolute nightmare for the Nigerian people.
The AAC stressed: “Like its equally irresponsible predecessors in the PDP, the APC prefers to attack the messenger, rather than address the message.
“It has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to curb profligacy, stop the serial looting of our treasury, and direct resources to properly fund education and reposition the sector as the primary driver of national development.”