The leadership of the House of Representatives will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday over the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, said the leadership will put up a report of its interactions with key stakeholders in the dispute and come up with recommendations that will enable the President to view the issues at stake from an informed second option.

Speaking at the last meeting of the House leadership with stakeholders, Gbajabiamila said the information garnered from the extensive interactions would assist the leadership in arriving at fact-based recommendations for the resolution of the crisis.

“We will put together our recommendations and our thoughts and take it to Mr President, that is why we are here to interface and look for solutions,” he said.

A Presidency source confirmed that the leaders of the House of Representatives are scheduled to see the president on Tuesday at 3pm.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has warned the leadership of ASUU to stop directing its members to continue with the strike after the National Industrial Court had ordered them to return to classes.

The notice was contained in a statement by the Ministry’s Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Olajide Oshundun, on Sunday.

Ngige had accused the union’s leadership, saying, “The union is dishonest and misleading its members and the general public, that it has filed an appeal as well as a stay of execution of the order of National Industrial Court on September 21, 2022, though it has not.

“It is therefore contemptuous, dishonest and misleading for the union to tell its members that it has not only appealed the interlocutory injunction by the National Industrial Court, directing it to call off the strike and return to work but that it also has a stay of execution.”

The minister, in another statement, denied walking out in a meeting between the House of Representatives and ASUU as some news agencies purported.

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