The Presidency said on Monday that it was no longer interested in the December 9 deadline it gave the striking university lecturers to return to work.
Rather, it said it was satisfied with the level of compliance of its directive to the lecturers in which it asked them to resume work or be sacked.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said this while briefing journalists on be payment of the N200bn by the Federal Government into the ‘Revitalisation of Universities Infrastructure’ account with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Besides the ‘substantial compliance’, he also said many senior citizens and institutions had appealed to the government to soft pedal on the issue of ultimatum.
He said as of Sunday evening, government had reports which he said confirmed that there was more than substantial compliance by many lecturers in many universities, adding that this encouraged government also to mellow down on the ultimatum.
For example, he said in the University of Lagos for instance, in the Faculty of Law, out of 100 “lecturers 70 signed up; in Arts and Science, sixty something per cent or so and this happens virtually in all the universities in the country, OAU, Ibadan, all over.”
He said this was the trend all over the universities in the country.
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