NIGERIANS BE PATIENT WITH ASUU, I GIVE YOU 100PERCENT ASSURANCE OF OUTCOME POSITIVITY - JONATHAN

Emerging from the meeting, Fagge told State House correspondents that
the president had given the delegation a message to its members which would enable the union to call off the strike.
"We have had a lengthy meeting with...
Mr President, rubbing minds on the
ways to address the problems of university education in this country.
"We now have a message from Mr President that we are going to take to
our members and we are expecting that our members will respond
appropriately to the message of Mr President," he said
Asked whether union would call off the strike and return to work based
on the message from the meeting, Fagge said "that is up to our
members."
Wogu, who spoke for the government, said that the meeting ended
positively and the message of the President to ASUU "is full of hope
and high expectations.
"The message is full of hope and expectations and our prayer is that
they come back with positive response.
"They might not even come back to meet us; they might even take
decisions there that will meet your expectations."
Wogu noted that the offer made by the president was in line with the
2009 agreement reached with the union.
"The offer is within the issues that led to the strike; the issues
contained in the 2009 agreement and we did not go beyond the
agreement," he said.
He appealed to Nigerians to be patient with ASUU and gave an assurance
that the outcome of the meeting would be positive.
The president appeared to be in high spirits when he entered the venue
of the meeting.
While shaking hands with the ASUU president, he exclaimed: "My
president! All the problems will be over today; our children must go
back to school."
The president proceeded to shake hands with everyone in attendance at
the meeting.
Also, while shaking hands with Omar and Kaigama, Jonathan said: "My
presidents, with you here, I am assured everything will go on well, it
is signed and sealed."