ASUU
STRIKE: PDP begins fasting & prayer
Demands
Immediate Unsealing of Secretariats in Obedience of
Abuja Court Ruling
The
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu
Baraje, has requested all members of PDP worldwide to embark on seven days
fasting and prayers commencing from Monday, 16th of September, 2013.
This
spiritual intervention is as a result of the concern of the Baraje-led PDP for
the plight of parents and our children due to the continued closure of public
universities following the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) to protest the Federal Government’s failure to keep the agreement it
signed with the Union in 2009.
Muslims
all over the nation and abroad who are PDP members should close their fast by
this Friday, 20th of
September, 2013, at their places of worship while the Christians should end
theirs on Sunday, 22nd September,
2013 at their places of worship.
It has
become imperative to seek the face of God over this matter considering that all
efforts to resolve this unwarranted strike have failed woefully and considering
the socio-economic damage this strike has caused both parents and our children.
We are confident that our resolve to go to God will succeed as the importance
of fasting and prayers cannot be over emphasized
To say
the least, we are shocked that the government inflicting this monumental
hardship on Nigerians is a PDP Government popularly elected by majority of
Nigerians and run by a President who was once a University Lecturer. In this
regard, we wish to plead with Nigerians for forgiveness on behalf of the PDP
Government at the centre, which could have avoided this costly strike. We wish
to assure all Nigerians that as a party we will surely find a way to end this
shameful situation.
Meanwhile,
Alhaji Baraje has set up a four-man Committee with His Excellency, Gov.
Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as Chairman to advise the party on the best way
to get the Federal Government’s Negotiating Committee and the leadership of
ASUU to reach an agreement on the issues at stake and thus end this
three-month-old strike. Other members of the Committee are His Excellency, Gov.
Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, Hon. Chinwo Ike, President of UNIPORT Alumni,
and Mr. Timi Frank, the PDP National Youth Leader.
We
sincerely solicit the patience of Nigerians while appealing to both the Federal
Government and the leadership of ASUU to end this imbroglio so that our
children may go back to school instead of engaging in acts inimical to their
future. The need for this has become urgent as reports reaching us indicate
that many of these students have out of frustration and boredom turned to
prostitution, armed robbery and other vices due to the prolonged industrial
action.
THE
POLICE NO LONGER HAS ANY REASON TO SEAL OUR SECRETARIATS
To the
glory of God, contrary to the prayers of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s faction of PDP,
a Federal High Court in Abuja on13th September, 2013, once again ruled that
the Baraje faction of PDP should be allowed to operate without any further
harassment or inhibition as it is not breaking any known law. Justice E.S.
Chukwu in his ruling held that there was no evidence before the court to show
any tardiness on the part of Baraje’s faction as claimed by the Tukur-led
faction, which requested it to stop the Baraje-led PDP from operating.
In view
of this ruling, the Police no longer has any valid reason (it never did,
anyway) to continue to seal our Secretariats. We, therefore, wish to appeal to
President Goodluck Jonathan to save the Police from the plot to ridicule it by
using it to perpetrate illegalities such as sealing the lawfully-acquired
National Secretariat of PDP and our Secretariats in states like Rivers,
Bayelsa, Kaduna and Kwara. The powers that be should as a matter of urgency
stop projecting and portraying the Police as a tool of injustice and attack on
the perceived political opponents of Mr. President.
On our
own, we will continue to use the Judiciary to prove to Tukur’s faction that the
days of running the affairs of our great party with impunity and
high-handedness are gone for good. The time has come for him to correctly read
the handwriting on the wall and honourably throw in the towel along with his
National Working Committee.
Long live PDP!
Long live Nigeria!!!
Chief
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
National
Publicity Secretary, PDP
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