The chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Kano State chapter, Alhaji Hashimu Dungurawa, has condemned the reaction of the National Chairman of APC, Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, on the scholarship scheme, from which the state recently sent over 1001 to foreign countries.
It will be recalled that the National Chairman of the APC had said in an interview with a local radio station monitored, that, “sending students to foreign countries is a lie and nothing but concoction and a means to siphoned public treasury.”
Former Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje said this in response to the foreign scholarships of the NNPP government, insisting that the idea was nothing but “waste of public treasury and a means to enrich oneself.”
Ganduje added that their calculation clearly shows that the money that would be spent on a single student is more than enough to cater for over 50 students studying in Nigeria.
Reacting to Ganduje’s remarks, the NNPP Chairman stated that for a former governor of the state to describe the laudable gesture as “fake and means to siphon money”, was unfortunate and an attempt to blackmail the government.
“This remarks coming from a PhD holder and somebody who claimed to be a technocrat, clearly defined him as somebody who lost touch to Academia and a busy body,” he stated
Dungurawa added that “for Ganduje to say that what our government did was an arranged and fake program because to him (Ganduje), most universities in Nigeria are far better than those we send our children, one will begins to have doubt on his Academic qualifications and his so-called vast experience on education”.
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