ASUU: PDP youths to protest against Fed Govt

The battle against the Federal Government’s
refusal to meet the demands of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) got a major
support yesterday as the National Youth Leader
of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Comrade Timi Frank, vowed to mobilise
students for a protest against the government.
According to the leader who spoke in Abuja,
the new PDP would ensure that the striking
lecturers call off the strike.
Although he described the proposed protest as
a peaceful one, he noted that meetings have
been ongoing to ensure that students return to
schools.
Frank said: “And it is my position today that
we should stand to protect every youth that
belongs to PDP in this country. I will defend
their rights at all levels. No matter the
intimidation, no matter the harassment, we
will do everything we can to make sure that
Nigerian youths will go back to school.”
On the protest, he said : “I have been holding
meetings with various student groups to
address them and tell them our plans about
what we want to do. So, it is something that
we are going to come out emmasse in a
peaceful manner to make sure that the
Nigerian youths must go back to school.”
Commenting on the 2015 general elections, the
youth leader noted that the new PDP would
not entrust powers into the hands of
politicians who place youth education as the
least priority.
He said: “Yes! It is something I have kicked
against even before today. Everybody knows. I
have said it . But this is the issue that the new
PDP will address and I am going to take this
campaign; as a member of the new PDP, I am
going to lead a protest campaign against the
current government of today because the
government of today has not convinced me
that they have plans or that they have future
to rescue Nigerian children.
“Nigerian children are at home and nobody is
talking about it. What they are talking of is
2015. We will not give them 2015 . PDP will
not not give 2015 to any leader that will not
stand by the youths of this country; that will
not resolve the ASUU crisis.
“Anybody that wants to stand under the PDP
will tell us how he is going to take care of the
welfare and the well-being and the
unemployment of the Nigerian youths. Until
that is being done, we will not relent even as
members of PDP. So I urge all Nigerians to
have confidence in the new PDP youth group
under Baraje.
“We are going to fight to make sure that
youths go back to school. We will not keep
quiet because this is PDP government. We will
not keep quiet because the ASUU strike does
not affect the PDP. Majority of the young
students today are members of PDP therefore
we will do everything we can to make sure that
Nigerian youths go back to schools.”