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Home | Strike: Don’t Disrupt Political Activities, Lawan Appeals To Students

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Strike: Don’t Disrupt Political Activities, Lawan Appeals To Students

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, appealed to students through the National Association of Nigerian Students not to disrupt political activities.

The appeal was made to the NANS President, Sunday Ashefon, alongside other officials of the union who were led to his office by a Methodist Bishop, Dr. Sunday Onuoha.

Students in different parts of the country have began to stage protests threatening to stall all political activities until the Federal Government resolve issues with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

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In response to the threat, the Senate President appealed to students to continue on the path of consultation and avoid confrontation.

He said, “I want to advise, I don’t think it will be necessary to disrupt political activities. We shouldn’t do that and we don’t need to do that.

“What we need to do is to continue to follow the path of consultation, consolidation and avoid confrontation. It is when you emphasise consultation, that it’s much easier for us to find something that you can consolidate.”

Lawan also said that the Senate was going to work towards putting an end to the strike as soon as possible.

He said, “Your prayer is that you want the Federal government and ASUU back to negotiate and resolve the issues. We have taken this prayer. We have endorsed it and we will work on it as quickly as possible.

“It is an opportunity for me also to appeal to ASUU to suspend this strike period because there is no way ASUU can negotiate with the Federal Government when it is on strike. So it is an opportunity for us to have them, at least create a window, suspend the strike for a certain period and let us see how far we can go.”

“I want to be very positive that we are going to resolve this issue as soon as possible by the Grace of God,” Lawan said.

The Senate President said the 2009 agreement which is the Crux of the matter was not properly thought out before it was signed.

“Somebody just wanted ASUU to go back to the classroom and just signed everything there. We must understand that there are things that when we promise we should do, we must do,” Lawan said.

Similarly, Lawan also stated that the upper chamber would intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal government and the ASUU by bringing back the two parties to the negotiation table.

The NANS President, Sunday Asefon who spoke for his other colleagues lamented their continued stay at home and disruption of their academic programme and urged the Senate President to intervene in the dispute between the Federal government and the University teachers.

The Senate President however expressed unhappiness about the turn of events, recalling that the Senate had intervened in the past before everything broke down again.

He further promised that the Senate would wade in again and expressed optimism that the issues would soon be resolved.

He said, “You are in the right place. We are going to intervene. We will make concerted and sustained efforts to bring back ASUU and the Federal government to the negotiating table so that we are able to resolve as quickly as possible those issues that are now very knotty and have stopped our Universities from reopening, that is now making our students walking the streets all over the country.

“But I want to appeal to you too since we are going to make effort to bring back everybody to the negotiating table, you should give us a chance to do that believing that we are going to find a solution because it is not only enough to bring them back to the negotiating table, but we will participate and I want to make sure that we find the solution when we start the negotiation again.”

The Senator added, “Now that you have come here, we are going to make sure that everybody in this sector especially those in the public sector who have responsibility and mandate performs their functions. We will make sure they do that.

“Because you have come, I think we also have some tonic enough in us. Time is of the essence and we must do whatever is necessary to get this issue resolved.”

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