The President, National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Comrade Sunday Asefon, on Thursday, accused Nigerian leaders of ignoring the plights of Students who are at the receiving end of the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
Comrade Asefon who also said that the leaders have diverted attention to the 2023 general elections, reassured that his Union would disrupt the forthcoming primary elections of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, if the industrial action is not called off.
“I am not even sure that the government is aware of our threat to disrupt primary elections of APC and PDP.
“We made a request to be part of the negotiation to end the ASUU strike and FG has not yielded to that call,” he said.
This is even as the Director-General, National Institute of Labour Studies, Issa Aremu, who also spoke during the programme called for the constitution of the National Labour Advisory Council to wade into the issues resulting in frequent industrial actions in the universities.
