ASUU wants socialist state, genuine workers’ party

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Officials of the Academic Staff Union of Universities are advocating for a socialist state in Nigeria, noting that only ‘a socialist welfare state’ could solve the country’s social and economic problems.

At a press conference on Monday after its National Executive Council meeting in Calabar, Cross River State, the union also said it would push for the formation of a genuine people’s workers party that will meet the challenges of forging the building of a free Nigeria.

The National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Isa, who read the position of the union, argued that the socialist welfare state will creatively reconstruct Nigeria’s economic and political institutions to serve the welfare needs of the populace.

The meeting was attended by the national officers of the union, past presidents of ASUU, including, Prof. Assisi Asobie; Dr. Oladipo Fashina; Dr. Sule-Kano Abdullahi, and Chairman of ASUU, University of Calabar branch, Dr. Charles Okpiliya, among others.

“The socialist welfare state will creatively reconstruct Nigeria’s economic and political institutions to serve the welfare needs of Nigerians. It will remove the economic basis of the nationality problem, promote freedom of religion in condition of equality of citizens and remove the basis of state plunder and terror,” Isa noted