Exposed: Kwankwaso’s Abuja Schools unaffordable, exorbitant fees ...Students pays over N2m annually Editor BY EDITOR December 9, 2022 I hav...
Exposed: Kwankwaso’s Abuja Schools unaffordable, exorbitant fees
...Students pays over N2m annually
Editor BY EDITOR December 9, 2022
I have no plan to step down for Atiku Says Kwankwaso
Senator Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, who is running for president with the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), has been found to charge outrageous school fees of N2 million per year. Not many people knew this.
Kwankwaso is the owner of two schools in Nigeria: the Key Science Academy and the Nigeria Egyptian International School.
Alhaji Jamilu Uba Ahmad, a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, said this. He said that Kwankwaso was only talking about giving Nigerians affordable education if he won the 2023 General Election.
Ahmad said that Kwankwaso lied to Nigerians at a recent Town Hall Meeting put on by Arise TV with the top three candidates for president in 2023.
Ahmad also made fun of the NNPP candidate for president by saying that Atiku would do well to lower the fees that students at the American University in Nigeria (AUN) in Yola, Adamawa state, have to pay.
He said that Kwankwaso is also a shareholder in Skyline University, where his daughter and younger brother are board members and directors and where the annual tuition is more than 4 million Naira.
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra state and presidential candidate for the Labour Party; Atiku Abubakar, a former governor of Kano state and presidential candidate for the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP); and Senator Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano state and presidential candidate for the NNPP, all took part in the debate.
Ahmad said that Atiku didn't get a chance to respond to Kwankwaso's comment, but the former vice president quickly said that Kwankwaso's comment was "against" the rules of the debate, which stressed that debaters shouldn't be aggressive toward each other.
The PDP leader said that Kwankwaso's outburst was just another attempt to politicize the issue of education, which he has been doing in Kano to fool the gullible and now wants to do in the rest of the country.
Ahmad also said that Kwankwaso, despite being a former two-term governor and minister, is not helping the situation by paying for the education of poor children in his village in Madobi local government or elsewhere in Kano, like some other former governors and ministers have done by setting up foundations to help pay for the education of poor people in their communities.
He said that Atiku is honest with Nigerians because he doesn't hide his investments, including AUN. On the other hand, he said, Kwankwaso hides his personal investments from the public and keeps tricking people into thinking that he cares about the education of poor children.
The PDP leader said that Kwankwaso used his executive power to force his way into the education sector by putting in place unfavorable policies and programs.
"Those of us who are from Kano have seen how Kwankwaso's politics of deception hurt education when he was in charge of the state. In 2015, right before he was about to leave office, he said that education should be free, but he didn't put in place the laws or money to make it happen.
"We also know about his fight with his replacement, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, over a foreign scholarship that was thought to have been used to steal money from the government. This is a man who said he got a free government education from elementary school through college. However, he used the well-known government foreign scholarship program he started during his second term in office to make money for himself at the expense of Kano students who were sent abroad with high hopes.
Ahmad then told Kwankwaso to stop politicizing education, saying, "If you really care about the development of the education sector, you should set up a number of scholarship programs or make special arrangements in your privately owned schools to help the poor."
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