Unending strike: Peter Obi regrets the closure of the university

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 The impact of the Academic Staff Union of Universities' prolonged strike on students and tertiary education in the nation has been bemoaned by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party. Due to what ASUU claimed as the government's "failure" to accept its demands, the organization went on strike on February 14. The demands include paying earned allowances, giving colleges funding for revitalization, setting up visiting panels, and using the University Transparency Accountability Solution to pay ivory tower employees rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. A committee led by Prof. Nimi Briggs was established by the government to examine the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement and the union's demands.

ASUU leaders claimed that no offer was offered to them when they left a meeting with the government on August 16. On August 30, 2023,  ASUU announced a complete and indefinite strike. The choice was made at a Sunday in Abuja gathering of the union's National Executive Council. The LP presidential candidate commented on the current strike on his Twitter account on Wednesday, claiming that universities have been shuttered for six months. He bemoaned what he called a "staggering level of corruption" in Nigeria, noting that the nation had also become divided along racial and religious lines. Nigeria is greatly politicized and torn apart along religious, ethnic, and regional lines, the author claimed. The extent of corruption is shocking. Our universities haven't been open for business in six months. "Power production and distribution are at an all-time low, and our healthcare system is still essentially in a state of death. We believe that the ASUU strike has continued for much too long. That FGN would permit such an industrial action to become nearly intractable to the detriment of our children is abhorrent, concerning, and unacceptable. It's time for FGN to enter into cooperative, sincere negotiations with ASUU.

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