{"id":99533,"date":"2022-09-21T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99533"},"modified":"2022-09-21T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:40:11","slug":"asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Strike: Burden of salvaging Nigeria on Labour Party&#8217;s shoulder\u00a0&#8211; Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1744603579930354022\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has stated that the party carries on his shoulder the burden of salvaging Nigeria from all her socio-economic woes despite being the smallest of the political parties.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Obi stated this Wednesday in his virtual address to the strategic session of Labour Party National Working Committee, State chairmen and Senatorial candidates in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former Anambra State governor asserted that the strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of University,ASUU, and the many other problems confronting Nigeria, &#8220;must compel us to reassert or resolve to ensure\u00a0 that there is leadership change in Nigeria come 2023.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 2023 presidential hopeful, who apologized for his inability to be physically part of strategic session held before the commencement of the electoral campaigns in about a week, reiterated his commitment to the course of ensuring leadership change in Nigeria in next year poll.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He urged stakeholders of the party to do whatever they can personally and collectively; to make all the necessary sacrifices to ensure that Labour party wins the 2023 general elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We in LP are one family now; we will remain so during the campaign and after we win the elections.\u00a0 I assure you that no one will be left behind,&#8221; Mr Obi stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recall that ASUU has embarked on an industrial action over labour dispute with the federal government, which has left activities in the nation&#8217;s higher institutions paralyzed for the past seven months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a new development, the National Industrial Court on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to work.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Federal Government had in a suit, prayed the court to order ASUU to call off its seven months strike.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has stated that the party carries on his shoulder the burden of salvaging Nigeria from all her socio-economic&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASUU Strike: Burden of salvaging Nigeria on Labour Party&#039;s shoulder\u00a0- Peter Obi - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASUU Strike: Burden of salvaging Nigeria on Labour Party&#039;s shoulder\u00a0- Peter Obi - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has stated that the party carries on his shoulder the burden of salvaging Nigeria from all her socio-economic&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-21T18:40:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/3d8e8d48-peter-obi-696x5221.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/asuu-strike-burden-of-salvaging-nigeria-on-labour-partys-shoulder-peter-obi\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"ASUU Strike: Burden of salvaging Nigeria on Labour Party&#8217;s shoulder\u00a0&#8211; 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