Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, has disclosed plans by Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, should he be chosen to lead Nigeria as its leader in 2023.
This was said by Oshiomhole, the Deputy Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, in an interview on Roadmap 2023, a pre-recorded Channels Television program that covers the preparations for the general elections in Nigeria that will take place in 2019.
In the interview, the former APC National Chairman made the case that Nigeria’s security system’s current “bandits” were actually people whose welfare had been disregarded by previous administrations.
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According to Oshiomhole, if the APC nominee is chosen to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari on February 25, he or she will make education and skill development mandatory for this group of individuals.
“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
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“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 Almajiri system of growth and development cannot continue, the former governor of Edo added.
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