My gov’t will give every child access to education – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has pledged that his administration would give every child access to education.  Atiku stated this in his goodwill message at the 2022 AGM/conference of the Association of Nigerian Universities Professional Administrators (ANUPA) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.  The former vice president, who was represented […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has pledged that his administration would give every child access to education. 

Atiku stated this in his goodwill message at the 2022 AGM/conference of the Association of Nigerian Universities Professional Administrators (ANUPA) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. 

The former vice president, who was represented by Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Canada and Mexico, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, sympathised with the association and the parents of all students for the “avoidable incalculable harm” done to them by the APC-led government and especially the face-off between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities.  

He said, “When you compare the PDP and the governing APC interregnum from 2015- to date, it is clear that the APC doctrine about education is suspect and tantamount to saying that education is sin. 

“How can one explain the fact that Nigeria has the largest number of children out of school in the world? Even the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has only 3.7 million children out of school while Nigeria has 20 million precious Nigerian children who are willfully denied school enrollment by a civilian administration.

“In my view and that of the PDP, basic education is a human right. No Nigerian child will be left behind when I become president next year as Allah will permit.

“My government shall also strive to improve the welfare of university administrators and their conditions of service to ensure that they face their jobs squarely and reduce as much as possible distractions occasioned by their participation in private businesses and Private Practice (PP) that take them away from the university environment.”