Nigeria: ASUU Advocates Socialism In Nigeria
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advocated socialism as a system of government, which they said would provide welfare pro...
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advocated socialism as a system of government, which they said would provide welfare programmes for Nigerians.
The university teachers, who made the pronouncement in Calabar Cross River State, yesterday at a press conference, said the National Conference constituted by the federal government would not solve Nigeria's problems.
According to ASUU, at the moment, a worker's party has become very necessary for the attainment of a welfare economy in the country.
Briefing journalists at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), the National President of ASUU, Nasir Fagge Isa, said: "In conclusion, what Nigeria needs is a struggle for the transformation of the country into a socialist state, not a device for perpetrating the rule of the rich, the powerful and the corrupt. The tools that can be used to confront the domination of Nigeria are both structural and instrumental. Structurally, there is need to adopt a development model that will make majority of the Nigerian people the key subjects (participants) and objects (ends) of the development process in the face of aggressive intervention by agents of global capitalism.
"In our country therefore, there is need for a genuine people's worker's party, organised with full lessons from past efforts. The party must be organised to meet the challenges of forging the building of a Nigeria where nations and individuals live in freedom and happiness. This is where we stand."
He said: "A new socialist constitution will emerge to back up the socialist transformation."
The ASUU president stated that: "The adoption of a socialist welfare state will be reinforced with decentralisation of legislative power, deconcentration of executive power and general acceptance of contractual non-concentration of power." He said it was time to commence mass political education in the country towards achieving the objective of a socialist state.
"There is urgent need to return to ideological and theoretical classes in colleges and universities for our youths and academics, as was the practice in the 1980s. In more general terms, it is imperative that all forces committed to the reconstruction of Nigeria, led by the labour movement forces, begin immediately to embark upon popular political education. The reconstruction of Nigeria into a socialist welfare state is the true alternative to global liberalism," he said.
Isa stated that the major productive assets of the country must not be concentrated in the hands of a minority ruling class, stressing that they will be publicly owned and run effectively.
The ASUU president said the union had not shifted from its position on rejecting the National Conference in its entirety.
He said: "The National Conference in its conception ab initio, was conceived without a democratic, national debate affirmation through a legitimating procedure in the democratic political instructions of the country. Its conception was arbitrary, its executors handpicked and its execution teleguided to attain the goals its originators.
The conference that emerged is dominated by representatives of political -military - business wings of the self -same groups/class that have created and sustained the political and economic crises suffered by our country and its people, with tokenist participation of representatives of dominated groups and classes."
The university teachers, who made the pronouncement in Calabar Cross River State, yesterday at a press conference, said the National Conference constituted by the federal government would not solve Nigeria's problems.
According to ASUU, at the moment, a worker's party has become very necessary for the attainment of a welfare economy in the country.
Briefing journalists at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), the National President of ASUU, Nasir Fagge Isa, said: "In conclusion, what Nigeria needs is a struggle for the transformation of the country into a socialist state, not a device for perpetrating the rule of the rich, the powerful and the corrupt. The tools that can be used to confront the domination of Nigeria are both structural and instrumental. Structurally, there is need to adopt a development model that will make majority of the Nigerian people the key subjects (participants) and objects (ends) of the development process in the face of aggressive intervention by agents of global capitalism.
"In our country therefore, there is need for a genuine people's worker's party, organised with full lessons from past efforts. The party must be organised to meet the challenges of forging the building of a Nigeria where nations and individuals live in freedom and happiness. This is where we stand."
He said: "A new socialist constitution will emerge to back up the socialist transformation."
The ASUU president stated that: "The adoption of a socialist welfare state will be reinforced with decentralisation of legislative power, deconcentration of executive power and general acceptance of contractual non-concentration of power." He said it was time to commence mass political education in the country towards achieving the objective of a socialist state.
"There is urgent need to return to ideological and theoretical classes in colleges and universities for our youths and academics, as was the practice in the 1980s. In more general terms, it is imperative that all forces committed to the reconstruction of Nigeria, led by the labour movement forces, begin immediately to embark upon popular political education. The reconstruction of Nigeria into a socialist welfare state is the true alternative to global liberalism," he said.
Isa stated that the major productive assets of the country must not be concentrated in the hands of a minority ruling class, stressing that they will be publicly owned and run effectively.
The ASUU president said the union had not shifted from its position on rejecting the National Conference in its entirety.
He said: "The National Conference in its conception ab initio, was conceived without a democratic, national debate affirmation through a legitimating procedure in the democratic political instructions of the country. Its conception was arbitrary, its executors handpicked and its execution teleguided to attain the goals its originators.
The conference that emerged is dominated by representatives of political -military - business wings of the self -same groups/class that have created and sustained the political and economic crises suffered by our country and its people, with tokenist participation of representatives of dominated groups and classes."
Source: All Africa
