A PDP led government at the federal level shall do all in its power to end the recurring strike by university lecturers in Nigeria.
The PDP vice presidential candidate and governor of Delta State Senator Ifeanyi Okowa made the promise at Ozoro yesterday while inspecting some on going projects in the university.
The governor lamented a situation where students are kept out of the classes for months, saying that a government should be able to keep promises freely entered into.
He assured Nigerians that his principal Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would accord priority to education.
The governor said that the four states universities were not on strikes because his government sees education as instrument of development.
Said Okowa :’All our four universities are in session because we pay special attention to education in Delta State, and our presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has also assured that education occupies a prime position in our “Rescue Nigeria” mission’s.
He commended the management of the Delta State University of Science and Technology Ozoro for successfully admitting 1,850 students, adding that the decision to upgrade the polytechnic was a good one.
Said Okowa :’ That over 3000 applicants have chosen the university of science and technology as first choice is very heart warming and it goes to show that our decision to upgrade the polytechnic to a university is a good one’.
