ASUU STRIKE: NEW PDP YOUTHS SET TO PROTEST

According to reports, the youth section of the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP have threatened to mobilize Nigerian
youths across the country, to protest against the closure of universities for over two months and alleged insensitivity of
the Federal Government to the plights of Nigerian students.
The nPDP youth leader, Timi Frank said it was really a shame that students would be out of schools for over three
months under a democratically elected government.
Frank said the attitude of the current administration, under President Goodluck Jonathan, to the plight of the striking
workers was an indication that he had lost track with the basic tenets of governance.
He noted that since all entreaties to make government honour its agreement with the lecturers had failed, the only
option left for anyone concerned about the future of this country was to mobilise the affected students for a mass
protest.
To ensure mass participation, he stated that he had held numerous meetings with various student groups in the
country.
Frank said: "Before I became the national youth leader of the new PDP, I had been speaking against the injustice being
meted out to Nigerian students over the ongoing ASUU strike. I can assure you that this is an issue the new PDP will
address.
"I am going to take this campaign up as the national youth leader of the new PDP. I am going to lead a protest against
the present government because it has not done anything to demonstrate that the future of the Nigerian youth is
paramount in its agenda.
"I have begun consultations with various student groups and we will unfold our strategies for the mass protest soon.
"University undergraduates are at home, but today nobody is talking about the situation, all they are talking about is
their 2015 ambition. PDP will not give any leader 2015 that will not stand by the youths of this country, that will not
resolve the ASUU crisis. Anybody that wants to stand under the platform of PDP must show commitment to the plight of
Nigerian youth."
He said he had been elected under the new PDP as the national youth leader and that his immediate goal was to rally
all the PDP youth leaders across the nation in support of the new agenda of bringing sanity to the party.
According to him, it is in redressing the various injustices under the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP that the future of the
youth can be secured.
He said: "As the national youth leader of the new PDP, the PDP with hope, the PDP with bright future, the PDP with
fairness and the authentic PDP under the leadership of Kawu Baraje, I am here today (yesterday) to urge all Nigerian
youths under the PDP that we should all remain calm."