Rebel Against Your Governors To Get Education – Oshiomhole To Nigerians

Adams Oshiomhole

A former governor of Edo state and former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has urged Nigerians to rebel against their governors to get education.

Oshiomhole urged Nigerians not to be carried away by politics but to seek ways to ensure that initiatives to keep children in schools are developed.

The former Labour leader was speaking at an event organised to champion an incentive-based program for out-of-school children in Nigeria.

“That is the law of universal compulsory education, but as we speak, we have children who are being taught under the tree, that is if they are being taught at all. And we have teachers who can’t even spell their names and they can only spread illiteracy”.

“It is about harassing, engaging, terrorising and if I may quote Obasanjo even behaving like a rebel to force governors and governments to get priorities right with regards to education.

“It is not right for us to boast of an ultra-modern government house and have the most dilapidated schools and even employ teachers not to pay them.”

“You have angry and hungry people in the classroom, they can’t be nice to our children and when they show no kindness to those children those children grow up without care without feeling, believing that the society is uncaring.”