The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has promised to meet the demand of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to pay their backlog of salaries if he is elected president.
Though the union embarked on an eight-month strike which ended in October, it has since been at loggerheads with the Federal Government over unpaid salaries, arguing that its members will make up for the lost time in the classroom.
However, Atiku gave the academics an assurance of clearing the backlog during his appearance at The People’s Townhall organised by Channels Television in Abuja on Saturday.
The former vice president further acknowledged that the presence of some invisible roadblocks,” noting that sometimes funds are channeled through “another federal bureaucracy” that “might decide to do whatever they want” before the monies are sent to the individual universities.
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