Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, ADC, has joined students to protest the lingering industrial strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
While showing support to NANS, the ADC presidential candidate also joined the students to protest the incessant industrial action.
While speaking at the protest, Sowore revealed that it was fundamental for the students to continue to stage the protest saying, “this is your struggle.”
The students who were excited at the show of support cheered Sowore on.
Sowore said, “I am a comrade and I remain a comrade forever, anything you need from us, let us know, but this is your struggle.
“Nigerian students delivered independence to Nigeria in 1960, after this, they hijacked it and started using it against us. Nigerian students delivered the democracy we have today in in 1999, but when they flog people, it is the same us that they flog.”
He told drivers, traders and the people of Nigeria to back the students’ struggle.
The Informant247 recalls that the students’ association had earlier issued threat to stop activities at the local and international airports across Nigeria starting from Monday due to the strike.
The Chairman of the NANS National Task Force on ‘End ASUU Strike Now,’ Ojo Raymond Olumide, expressed disappointment in the government as he said students were tired of pleading with both parties to put an end to the industrial strike.
The Informant247 had earlier reported that the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday invaded the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
This is to mount pressure on the government to put an end to the seven month industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.