Nigeria: 2015 Elections - Which Messiah Will Deliver Education?

24 January 2015

Ever since campaigns for the 2015 elections began, education has been mentioned in bits and pieces by candidates of the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP, and its main opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC. However, no educational issue has been given as much attention as the 'certificate saga' associated with General Muhammad Buhari, the APC's presidential candidate. For a nation that cares so much about a 53-year old certificate, it only seems natural that education would be at the forefront of burning issues in a time like this. Stakeholders in the sector worry that this is not the case.

This is a matter which has bothered us sorely since the commencement of political campaigns;" said Dr. Chibuzo Asomugha, the national President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, "we have monitored the expressed programmes of the vocal candidates and we are yet to receive reassuring signals of a serious focus on the education sector. While one party is preoccupied with reeling out its perceived landmark impact on education, the other party is not even paying the subject any significant attention. It appears the parties and their candidates are more concerned with the seemingly more exigent issues of security and the economy and may not have considered education as a captive subject matter for maximum electoral capital."

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