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Union hails Ngige for ceding ambition to resolve education sector’s crisis

By Gloria Nwafor
08 June 2022   |   3:58 am
Members of the National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) has commended the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for withdrawing from the All People Congress (APC)’s Presidential race to continue as a mediator in ensuring crisis rocking the educational sector are resolved.

Members of the National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) has commended the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for withdrawing from the All People Congress (APC)’s Presidential race to continue as a mediator in ensuring crisis rocking the educational sector are resolved.
 
The union described his withdrawal as a selfless and patriotic decision.
 
A letter signed by the union’s President, Lateef Oyelekan and General Secretary, Mike Olanrewaju, respectively, said it was inevitably expedient for Ngige to reconsider his move towards the presidential candidate of his party, following the avalanche of industrial crisis bedeviling the tertiary educational sector, which had remained intractable to resolve.
 


The union noted that the minister’s withdrawal showed that he listened to the passionate appeal from the union not to abdicate his responsibility at this critical period.
 
The letter reads: “In consideration of the irreparable monumental dangers and destructive retrogression of educational pursuits of Nigerian students, prompted our union’s earlier passionate appeal to reconsider your well deserved presidential ambition to fully concentrate and remain focused on the possibility of resolving the protracted strike embarked upon by all the industrial unions in tertiary educational sector as the meditator-in-chief of the Federal Government. 

“The fact that all public universities have remained closed for more than four months running, ultimately gives cause for concern and unbearable worry.
 
“Consequently, your selfless and patriotic decision to put the interest of Nigerians masses and university students in particular over and above your personal interest by opting out of the presidential primary of your political party even after paying a huge amount of money to obtain the nomination form is a welcome and soothing development. Your historic decision to concede to our appeal and the appeals of progress loving Nigerians is highly appreciated.”

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