Former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has revealed plans by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu should he be elected as Nigeria’s next President in 2023.
Oshiomhole, who is the Deputy Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, stated this during an interview on Roadmap 2023, a pre-recorded programme on Channels Television that highlights preparations for Nigeria’s general elections next year.
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During the interview, the ex-APC National Chairman argued that those who are being called bandits today responsible for challenging Nigeria’s security architecture are citizens whose welfare had been neglected by successive governments.
If elected as President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor on February 25, Oshiomhole said the APC candidate will make education and skills acquisition compulsory for this class of citizens.
“Those we refer to as bandits are people in my view whom the country has dehumanised as young children, denied them access to education, spend all their lives begging, living from hand to mouth under the weather (and) nobody cares,” he said.
“The public can’t locate their parents and now they are in their late twenties, not educated and they must survive. Even if they must survive on begging, those who can give alms are getting fewer and now they decide to resort to what we now call banditry
“The long-term solution, Asiwaju spoke to it. We must recognise that the 21 st century is not good to have amajiri as a given. Every Nigerian must be entitled to, beyond formal legality, is to have universal basic, compulsory education
“The logic of that is that if you must have a child, you have a legal duty to ensure that child goes to school, at least up to primary school level.”
The former Edo governor added that the Almajiri system of growth and development cannot continue.
For the full interview, do watch Channels Television’s Roadmap 2023 on Monday.
