Dare Babalola
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has called on the Federal Government to put more efforts into developing the country’s education sector.
Obi said this in a post he made on Thursday on his X account, while reacting to a recent statement by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) which stated that over 20 million Nigerian children are out of school.
Obi said, “These scary statistics were also mirrored by WAEC, as they confirmed that the recently released WASSCE is the worst academic performance in five years, with only 38% of students passing.
“At a time when education should be our most urgent national priority and most critical investment, we as leaders continue to spend trillions on infrastructures, most of which contribute little or nothing to the measurable development index and cannot be completed and renovations that are a misplaced priority, while the foundational sectors like education remain in crisis.
“Education is the most powerful investment we can make in the future of this nation. We must urgently redirect our focus towards building our national human capital by providing quality and functional schools and investing in access to learning for every Nigerian child.”
The former Anambra governor warned that a nation that neglects its young people has no future.
“We must urgently redirect our priorities, and invest in quality education. Our children deserve classrooms, not abandoned projects.
“To build a stronger, safer, and more prosperous nation, we must invest in our children, because when we fail them, we have failed our nation,” he concluded.
