2019 Election: Ogun ASUU, Academics Pledge Support For Atiku

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and Stakeholders in the educational sector in Ogun State rose at a meeting on Tuesday with the resolve to work, canvass and mobilise in support of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar to ensure his election in the forthcoming presidential election in February.

The meeting, held with the Deputy Chairman of People’s Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council (South) and former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel at the Political Academy in Sagamu, had representatives of all the tertiary institutions in the State in attendance.

The Academics, who spoke in turns, lamented the lack of direction of both the present State and Federal governments especially as it relates with educational development which had drawn the clock of development backwards in the sector.

In their words, the political class has pauperized the people causing them to sway their votes with little inducements thereby electing incompetent leaders resultant of the present situation which the State and the country have found itself.

“The state of education in Ogun is lamentable. Higher institutions were starved of funds with accumulated salaries and allowances unpaid.”

Lauding the restructuring agenda of Atiku together with his commitment to creating jobs for the teeming masses, they believe these policies will take Nigeria out of the woods putting it back on track.