ASUU On Strike As Education Minister Purchases N100 Million APC Presidential Form

Ilesanmi AdekanbiApril 28, 2022

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Since 72 days that University students have been home, the Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has purchased the N100 million of Presidential nomination forms.

Nwajiuba had on Wednesday obtained the All Progressive Congress (APC) expression of interest form to become the President of the country in 2023 through a group named Project Nigeria Group (PNG).

Nwajiuba, who accepted the nomination form at a reception hosted by the Project Nigeria Group (PNG) in Abuja on Wednesday, called on the party to place the trust in him as their new symbol of unity, growth and regeneration.

The expression of interest form cost N30 million while the nomination form is N70 million.

Abubakar Usman, Special Assistant on New Media to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this in a tweet on Wednesday.

He said the presidential hopeful is the first to get the ruling party’s presidential forms.

“The Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba becomes the first person to pick the APC Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the APC Presidential Primary as a group of Nigerians raised over N100m from where they purchased the forms for him,” the tweeted.

The Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba becomes the first person to pick the APC Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the APC Presidential Primary as a group of Nigerians raised over N100m from where they purchased the forms for him. pic.twitter.com/C2ePVrNM0T

— Abubakar Sidiq Usman (@MrAbuSidiq) April 27, 2022

The Minister in charge of Education and under his watch has failed to reach a deal with public university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

An industrial action embarked upon by ASUU over poor pay, years of unmet agreements and deplorable service conditions has reached day 72.

Meanwhile, the Nigerians have reacted to the Education minister over his presidential form obtained worth N100 million.

@Deji Adeyanju, the convener of Concerned Nigerians, described the Minister as a clown who deceived Nigerians.

“The Minister of Education just bought an N100m APC presidential nomination form and ASUU is still on strike.

“Today is day 72 since students have been home. These are the clowns that deceived Nigerians with CHANGE in 2015,” he wrote on Twitter.

@AntiPMC, “Nawa… students are at home. Some don dey do hook up due to strike. Yet this one is unconcerned. Na Presidency dey hungry am, when he has done absolutely nothing as a minister”.

@Oyinoobi, “Where did he get the money to buy the form? And to even think ASUU is on strike, yet he had the money for the form.

Under a sane and responsible government, this baboon should have been in the custody of EFCC, undergoing hot grilling”. What nonsense!

@Firstladyship, “What’s going thru the mind of every Nigerian student at home while the politicians’ campaign in their faces? I wonder if they’re aware the APC is selling their Presidential Nomination Form for N100m, & Ngige purchased one for himself? I wonder if Nigerian students have their PVCs?”

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