Ruqayyatu Rufai Joins ASUU Strike (Ex- education Minister)

Prof Rufai says it is now unfair to ask
her to speak on the strike.
The immediate past Minister of Education,
Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, who was sacked
from the federal cabinet last month, has
joined the ongoing strike by Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, which she
desperately tried to break while in office.
PREMIUM TIMES enquries at Bayero
Universities, Kano, BUK where Mrs Rufai
was teaching Education Curriculum before
joining the Jigawa State cabinet in 2007 and
later the federal cabinet in 2011, revealed
that although the former minister had
returned to the institution, she was yet to
commence work as a result of the ongoing
industrial action.
Public Relations Officer of BUK, Mustapha
Zaharaddeen, told this newspaper in a
telephone interview on Wednesday that the
former minister had joined her colleagues
in the strike.
“How can she teach? She has joined the
strike,” Mr. Zaharaddeen said. “She has no
choice. How can anybody teach? Don’t
forget, ASUU National President is from
BUK.”
Mrs Rufai, the first female education
minister from the northern part of Nigeria,
was sacked from the federal cabinet
alongside eight other ministers last
September 11.
The other sacked ministers were Olugbenga
Ashiru (Foreign Affairs), Hadiza Mailaifa
(Environment), Shamsudeen Usman
(National Planning), Ama Pepple (Land,
Housing and Urban Development), Ita Ewa
(Science and Technology).
Ministers of State for Defence, Power and
Agriculture, Olusola Obada, Zainab Kuchi
and Bukar Tijani, respectively were also
relieved of their positions.
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