…Education of our Youths Too critical to be mocked on national television
By Halliday Adonye Anthony
I am one of the privileged Nigerian students attending a private university in Nigeria that is not affected by the ASUU strike. However, I have friends and relatives who are not as privileged as me, who attend public universities and have been out of school for over 5months due to ASUU strike,
I watched the interview with the ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke on channels television on 19/08/2022 and I was shocked, embarrassed and scandalized, by the shameless and unprofessional way which channels television hosts conducted the interview.
They could not hide their biases as they tried desperately to defend the unpatriotic position of the APC lead government on the ASUUBstrike tgat borders on ridiculing poor helpless Nigerian public Universitystudent. Rven when the ASUU president told them that in 2013 former President Goodluck Jonathan resolved the strike in one day, instead of processing that information, one of them asked if president Buhari must attend the meeting.
My advice to National Association of Nigerian Students- NANS is to also sue channels television, in compliance with ghe ridiculous proposition by APC Presidential Campaign spokesma, Festus Keyamo that Nigerian students should sue ASUU. This is because Channels Tv seems to be the unofficial television station of the APC and even TVC owned by the APC Presidential candidate and expected to be biased has conducted itself more professionally than Channels Television.
This is not the first time channels television has been biased and in my view, this is the last straw and I would never watch channels television again and I will advice Nigerians to boycott the station for it’s unprofessional partisanship.
*Halliday Adonye Anthony wrote from Abuja.
