FGN and Governor Oshiomhole, the mediator

Recently, Governor Oshiomhole visited the Minister of Education, Dr Sam Egwu to mediate on the ASUU labour conflict with FGN, proposing a win-win!

I hope the mediator understands a win-win situation.

Egwu thinks: I am in charge and I have the power. Hang on until I defeat you.
ASUU thinks: This is our country and in our constituency, we call the shots. Not Egwu.

This is a time bomb for our demoncrazy or democracy. We wait to see the outcome. Any government that cannot generate relevance from consensus-building mechanisms is planning the beginning of its end. That is the law of politics except it employs dictatorial instincts of the power-driven maverick, which can only be transitory in effect.
Our hope lies in a government that knows the tenets of democracy, the rule of law and the proper use of state power on behalf of the people.

Acting for the people means speaking to ASUU until a consensus is reached (ie democracy) , finding ASUU to be in breech of the law (ie using the court properly) and not using state power to weaken a democratic institution like ASUU (ie against the people). Let them analyse the options. This strike has the destiny of making or unmaking a political ruling class that Nigerians have been thinking about its future.