The Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said his administration will end perennial strike actions that threaten to cripple the federal universities in the country if elected President in 2023.
Obi made this known while speaking at a recent town hall meeting with youth in Port Harcourt. He also promised to increase education funding, make universities autonomous and avail loans to students.
While talking further, he said as president, students will not stay beyond their course time in schools
He said: “I will not allow them to make your stay 8 years for a 5-year course. 5 years will be 5 years. If I have a problem with ASUU it is between me and them. You shouldn’t suffer for our disagreement.
“Universities should be able to manage their resources, so they don’t have to shut down.
“So many things are not adding up but I will sit down with ASUU and we will discuss.
He added that he would embark on physical tours to tertiary institutions to make them work. He said: “I assure you that when I become president I will visit at least 10 universities in a year. I visited over 500 secondary schools when I was a governor in Anambra. And all their school prefects have my phone number and I deal with them directly.
“In my manifesto, I said we will fund education, we will increase the funding. We will invest in education because the greatest investment any society can do is education. The more educated a society is, the more developed they are.
“You continue to talk about physical infrastructure when you have not built the human infrastructure, which is education. So we will fund education at the tertiary level through collaborations, the government will bring the money and we can also get some corporations to support and we will do student loans.”
Obi noted that his government would be a youth and women’s government as the “old people will be there as advisers, they will guide us, we will respect them but the youth will spearhead it.”
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