President Goodluck Jonathan will on
Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.
An official of the Vice President’s
office who pleaded anonymity told Scan News that all hands are now on deck to
ensure that the Universities resume next week.
The President will at next Monday’s
meeting present to the ASUU leadership the
administration’s last concession for them to call off the prolonged strike.
A source at the Presidential Villa noted
that if ASUU fails to call off, the
Federal Government will then resort to plan B, which will be to compulsorily
open the Universities, using the
instrumentality of the governing councils and the school managements.
Already, most of the governing
councils of the Universities have started meeting to work out
modalities for the compulsory re-opening of the Universities should ASUU fail to honour the personal request of
President Jonathan.
It was gathered that security report
available to the Presidency may have necessitated this line of action to
salvage the Universities system from
the direction it is facing at present.
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