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ASUU: Nigerians Blasts Education Minister, Emeka Nwajiuba For Buying N100m APC Forms

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, as Minister of State for Education, has officially joined the long list of political gladiators vying to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The All Progressive Congress (APC), the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, have been urged to democratically pick nomination and Expression of Interest forms.

HURIWA, the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association, made the demand on Wednesday, harshly denouncing Nwajiuba for making the “ill-advised” choice to acquire the N100 million worth of forms.

According to the organization, if Nigeria were genuinely democratic and the rule of law reigned supreme, all serving ministers with no statutory tenures who chose forms to replace their boss would have been fired immediately.

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According to HURIWA, the junior education minister is not even qualified to run for Senator if Nigeria is legal, based on the Ministry of Education’s abject inability to preserve academic stability in the public tertiary education system.

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The rights group wondered whether the young man has any noticeable legacy in his home state of Imo and his Senatorial zone of Okigwe that suffers from systematic and systemic marginalisation by the Federal Government that he has been part of for good 7 years and still counting.

“Okigwe is today the least developed Senatorial zone in all of Nigeria even when it is one of the oldest in terms of period of creation in the 1970s but this Minister of Education, who has been colourless and phenomenally poor in performance is insulting our national psyche by buying the overpriced Presidential nomination form from his party even as he is telling us that his friends bought the N100 million form for him,” HURIWA said in a statement signed by Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, its National Coordinator.

“Why is EFCC not asking questions now but is constantly harassing students in Owerri Imo State in pursuit of the so-called yahoo-yahoo boys?

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“Indeed the fault is neither of Emeka Nwajiuba the young man whose ‘Chi’ burnished his fortune and has been favoured with the rapid political rise in the society, but that of Buhari who has shown that he is not in touch with the contemporary times because were Mr President to be aware of his environment, he wouldn’t permit these unnecessary distractions posed to his administration by the fact that his serving Federal cabinet members are divided and are pursuing their personal political fortune and interests even whilst still holding on to publicly funded paid appointments.

“How on Earth will these distracted ministers like Emeka Nwajiuba, Chris Ngige, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi be focused on efficient and dynamic public service delivery when they are actively involved in chasing after their delusional political ambitions to be President? This is an unmitigated political disaster and a shame of a lifetime that this infamy is tolerated by President Muhammadu Buhari.”

HURIWA has therefore asked NANS if it hasn’t been compromised and hijacked by political forces like the Nigeria Labour Congress to peacefully occupy the national Secretariat of the APC to demand that the hierarchy reject the purchase of the multimillion Naira worth Presidential nomination form by the poorly performing education minister whose ineffectiveness has kept students away from schools for two Months.

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“The Academic Staff Union of Universities should similarly embark on such a civil disobedience course and they will inevitably be supported by hundreds of credible civil society stakeholders including the Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA),” it said.

 

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