nPDP youths threaten to protest against ASUU strike on September 11, 2013 at 12:40 am in News BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU ABUJA—The youth wing of factional new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, has promised to mobilize Nigerian youths across the country, to protest against the closure of universities for over two months and alleged insensitivity of the Federal Government to the plights of Nigerian students. This came as over 40,000 youths have allegedly indicated interest to join the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led nPDP, following appointment of President Goodluck Jonathan’s kinsman, Mr. Timi Frank, as the national youth leader of the Baraje-led faction of the PDP. The threat to organise the protest by the nPDP youth wing came on the heels of protest by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, University of Port-Harcourt chapter, over the prolong strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which led to the blockade of the East West road for over one hour. Addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the nPDP youth leader, Timi Frank, said it was really a shame that students would be out of schools for over three months under a democratically elected government. Frank said the attitude of the current administration, under President Goodluck Jonathan, to the plight of the striking workers was an indication that he had lost track with the basic tenets of governance. He noted that since all entreaties to make government honour its agreement with the lecturers had failed, the only option left for anyone concerned about the future of this country was to mobilise the affected students for a mass protest. To ensure mass participation, he stated that he had held numerous meetings with various student groups in the country. Frank said: “Before I became the national youth leader of the new PDP, I had been speaking against the injustice being meted out to Nigerian students over the ongoing ASUU strike. I can assure you that this is an issue the new PDP will address. “I am going to take this campaign up as the national youth leader of the new PDP. I am going to lead a protest against the present government because it has not done anything to demonstrate that the future of the Nigerian youth is paramount in its agenda. “I have begun consultations with various student groups and we will unfold our strategies for the mass protest soon. “University undergraduates are at home, but today nobody is talking about the situation, all they are talking about is their 2015 ambition. PDP will not give any leader 2015 that will not stand by the youths of this country, that will not resolve the ASUU crisis. Anybody that wants to stand under the platform of PDP must show commitment to the plight of Nigerian youth.” He said he had been elected under the new PDP as the national youth leader and that his immediate goal was to rally all the PDP youth leaders across the nation in support of the new agenda of bringing sanity to the party. According to him, it is in redressing the various injustices under the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP that the future of the youth can be secured. He said: “As the national youth leader of the new PDP, the PDP with hope, the PDP with bright future, the PDP with fairness and the authentic PDP under the leadership of Kawu Baraje, I am here today (yesterday) to urge all Nigerian youths under the PDP that we should all remain calm.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:26:35 +0000
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