FG not sincere, committed to resolving ASUU strike- Adeyeye

Following the strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since November 4, last year, a legal practitioner and energy expert, Prince David Adetunji Adeyeye, has said that the federal government “is not committed to a peaceful resolution of the strike”.
Adeyeye, who is also the Young Progressive Party (YPP) candidate for AMAC/Bwari Constituency in the 2019 House of Representatives election, said that the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, just like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has, once again, demonstrated that it will “continue to play politics with the lives and future of Nigerian youths” by refusing to honour the agreement reached with ASUU since 2009.
In an exclusive chat with Blueprint Weekend on Saturday, Adeyeye  said that the ASUU strike has led to many social ills, as millions of Nigerian youths, who are supposedly the leaders of tomorrow, “have been rendered idle, jobless and wasting away at home”.
He said that many of the students affected by the strike have taken to a life of crime, since an idle mind is the devil’s working tool.
He implored the federal government to do everything necessary to make sure that the ASUU strike is resolved before the 2019 general elections, which is just less than a month away.
He said: “The APC government, like PDP, have again demonstrated that they will continue to play politics with lives and future of Nigerian youths, who are supposedly the leaders of tomorrow, by failing to immediately resolve the ongoing ASSU strike.
“They are keeping millions of Nigerian youths and students idle, jobless and wasting away at home. However, the Nigerian youths have now also come to the realization that the expired political overlords in APC and PDP have no meaningful educational agenda to enable them compete globally for opportunities. The youths are ready to vote them out this election.
“Nevertheless, I call on this government, if sincerely they are ready to take Nigerian youths seriously, to end the strike before the 2019 elections, and ensure that mechanisms are put in place to stop future needless strikes going forward.”