Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dropped a bombshell amid the protracted Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.

Jonathan said: “The society we are managing is complex, now we are talking about the ASUU strike, during my time too, ASUU had four months of strike, different committees were meeting and meeting and nothing was working. I said how can our children stay out of school for four months? So I had to call a meeting of all the leadership of ASUU.”

“I presided over the meeting with my vice president, the Attorney General was there, I said that that night we must solve the problem.”

“The Attorney General was there, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation was there, the minister of education was there, the labour minister was there, the finance minister, everybody that has to do with it.”

“And I thought that my being there would help us to do things quickly. But we spent the whole night.”

“Before we finished it was like 5:30am before we concluded and the strike was called off, so there were issues.”