Counsel for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Femi Falana SAN , has stated that ASUU were ready to call off the 8 months strike, calling on Federal government to fast track negotiations with ASUU .
Femi Falana gave the assurance in a message to journalists on Monday.He expressed confidence that the meeting between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the presidency over the matter, would yield positive results.
Falana said, “Our clients are ready to call off the strike. The Federal Government should fast track and finalise the negotiations.
“Hon Gbajabiamila and his colleagues in the House of Representatives have met with the Presidency over the matter
” I am reasonably confident that the consultations between the House and the Presidency will yield positive results in the interest of the striking lecturers and the students.”
Following a meeting with the presidency, Gbajabiamila on Friday said the house has done its part to end the months-long ASUU strike and Nigerians will hear the outcome of the deliberations from the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its seven-month strike.
The ASUU National President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had said that the union will study the ruling.
Meanwhile, The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said, “For the first time, we have seen light at the end of the tunnel.”
This is just as the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, who briefs the leadership of ASUU about his meetings with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the crisis, said he expected that the strike would be called off “in matter of days.”