ASUU blasts APC, calls Bisi Akande grandfather of half-baked government

- Chief Bisi Akande has been described as grandfather of half-baked government by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)

- ASUU said this in reaction to Akande's criticism of the union for embarking on strikes

- Akande was reported to have said the union is destroying the country with demands that are not genuine

For accusing striking lecturers of producing vagabonds and unemployable graduates, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the former national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande as grandfather of half-baked government.

The union also described the ruling All Progressives Congress as a party of vagabonds.

Akande had condemned the strike embarked upon by ASUU in Oke Ila Orangun where he went to commission a classroom donated to Abolarin college recently.

He was reported to have said the union is destroying the country with demands that are not genuine.

In his reaction, ASUU chairman, University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole, said accused Akande of not acting like an elder statesman.

“The same Bisi Akande who himself was a teacher during the free education programme of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo sacked hundreds of teachers and left Osun state education in tatters now claims to value quality graduates while shying away from adequate investment in education.

“It is on record that during Akande’s time as governor all the higher institutions in Osun State were closed down due to the anti-masses policy of his administration on education.

“It is even self-indicting for the leader of a ruling party who is destroying public education with chronic underfunding of the existing institution but busy itself to mushrooming of new universities without any funding plan to still be talking in public. The budget for education in the current year was wickedly cut down to seven percent to demonstrate their hatred for public funded education,” Omole said