Gbajabiamila: ASUU strike’ll end soon

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has expressed confidence on the resolution of the ongoing industrial dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government.

Gbajabiamila, who spoke on Friday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja after a follow-up meeting between the leadership of the House and President Muhammadu Buhari, said the outcome of the meeting would soon be made known by the President.

Recall that the leadership of the House, on Tuesday, presented a report containing recommendations following meetings with stakeholders in the ongoing ASUU-FG face-off to President Buhari after which a follow-up meeting was scheduled for Thursday.

Noting that the end of the crisis might soon be in sight, Gbajabiamila said the meeting was positive.

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According to a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, the House of Reps Speaker added that pending issues would be concluded, saying: “We just came here for a follow-up, which was supposed to be yesterday but unfortunately the President was not around and this is a follow-up.

“We had, once again very fruitful discussions with Mr President on the pending issues and this matter would be concluded. You will hear directly from the President, but suffice it to say that we had a very good meeting.

“The assurance is that we’ve met with the President, we’ve discussed, it was a positive meeting and even the leader here is saying it was very positive and it shall be well.”

Gbajabiamila, however, urged Nigerians to be patient for President Buhari to make his pronouncement over the issues based on the new facts before him.

“I think Nigerians will hear directly from Mr President, we all look forward to it; we had a good meeting, you can read between the lines,” he added.

The Star