Ashiru Hits Out at Gov Sani, Labels APC’s Handling of ASUU Strike a Planned Failure

Isa Ashiru, a former governorship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, has called Governor Uba Sani’s All Progressives Congress (APC) administration a failure.
Due to Governor Sani’s noncompliance with the agreement signed with the union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Kaduna State University chapter reportedly went on indefinite strike on Thursday.
Governor Sani’s administration broke several agreements, including withholding salaries, pensions, and non-payment of promotion arrears, according to the notice of strike letter signed by the union’s chairman, Peter Adamu, and secretary, Peter Waziri.

“The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), KASU branch would like to inform the public that the National Executive Council (NEC) has granted the branch’s congress’s request to resume the suspended indefinite strike action, effective today, April 24, 2025,” wrote the statement. The following are the matters at issue, for the record: 1. Remittance of all salaries withheld (May through September 2022, among others); 2. Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) received as of 2026; 3. Disbursement of SIWES supervision allowances and promotion arrears; 4. Group Life Assurance and other benefits to departed members; 5. Pensions not being remitted from 2009 to 2019; 6. The 25% and 35% wage award being implemented; 7. The restoration of university independence.

“The Government of Kaduna State has failed to uphold its commitments and honor the agreement reached by both parties, which is the reason for the indefinite strike action.”

ASUU’s strike, according to Ashiru’s statement on Friday, was a verdict on Sani’s administration. He pledged his support for ASUU’s industrial action.

In addition to being a labor movement, the ASUU-KASU indefinite strike is a scathing indictment on the APC-led Kaduna government. unfulfilled promises, underpaid pensions, and withheld wages. This government has disregarded education. There is enough.

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Our professors, students, and institutions have been neglected, abandoned, and reduced to shadows for years. This is a systemic, intentional, and shameful failure on the part of APC. This is not the role of governance. It is treachery.

“ASUU-KASU has our utmost solidarity. The future of Kaduna depends on the fight for high-quality education. It’s time for people to stand up and declare that ineptitude will never again be used as a reason to sacrifice their children,” he stated.