The Federal Government has said it has done all its best to put an end to the ongoing industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made this revelation on Tuesday while having a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities at the National Universities Commission (NUC) Abuja.
He said all necessary previous efforts by the federal government to bring the lecturers back to class have not been successful.
He said he and many officials of the government had met and discussed with the union on several occasions to put an end to the seven-month-old industrial strike.
“We have done the best that we can in the circumstance. After inter-ministerial consultations and rounds of hard negotiations with all government agencies, we interacted with the Unions. I personally, gave it all it required to resolve the current challenges.
“I met the Unions anywhere and everywhere possible with facts, with figures, and with absolute sincerity.
“For example, I directly met with ASUU leadership in my house, in my office and at the ASUU Secretariat on several different occasions, in addition to other formal engagements going on,” he said.
The Minister revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered them not to welcome any demand that is not feasible.
The Informant247 reports that universities lecturers under the aegis of the ASUU had, on February 14, 2022, embarked on industrial action shutting down public universities.
The Union has been demanding full execution of previous agreements the union and the FG had made.