The 2023 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.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, spoke on Monday at
the National Retreat of the party in Abuja.
Similarly, a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said the
people behind oil theft are known by the government and have enablers within
the 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 in
Nigeria.
Speaking also 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.
Public universities in the country have been shut down for
about seven months since February 14 when ASUU embarked on its industrial
action.
Recall 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.