Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration resolved a four-month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in just one day.
ASUU strike under Jonathan was another issue the ex-president touched on Wednesday in Abuja at the 70th birthday celebration of Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, organised by The Kukah Centre.
His words, “The society we are managing is complex, now we are talking about ASUU strike, during my time too, ASUU had four months of strike, different committees were meeting and meeting and nothing was working.
“I said how can our children stay out of school for four months. So I had to call a meeting of all the leadership of ASUU.
“I presided over the meeting with my vice president, the Attorney General was there, I said that that night we must solve the problem.
“The Attorney General was there, Secretary to the Government of the Federation was there, the minister of education was there, the labour and finance ministers were there, everybody that has to do with it.
“And I thought that my being there would help us to do things quickly. But we spent the whole night, before we finished was like 5:30am. Before we concluded, and the strike was called off, so there were issues”.
The former President noted that the birthday celebrant Bishop Kukah, despite his friendship with leaders, also bashes them when he feels they are not doing some things right, including himself.
