Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), in Kano State, Hashimu Dungurawa has described comments attributed to the national chairman of APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, saying, “sending over 1000 students to foreign countries is fake and a means to siphon money”, as unfortunate blackmail.
Responding to the statement before newsmen on Tuesday in Kano, he explained that former governor, Ganduje is out of touch with the happenings in the academia.
Dungurawa said, “These remarks coming from a PhD holder and somebody who claims to be a technocrat, clearly defined him as somebody who has lost touch with reality of academia in this age”.
He noted with dismay, “for Ganduje to say that what our government did was an arranged and fake program because to him most universities in Nigeria are far better than those we send our children to, then one will begin to have doubt about his Academic qualifications and his claimed vast experience in the field”.
The national chairman of the APC, had said in an interview with a local Radio Station monitored in Kano that, “sending students to foreign countries is a lie and nothing but concoction and a means to siphon public treasury”.
Ganduje stated this while commenting on the foreign scholarships offered to 1001 students by the NNPP government in Kano.
He insisted that the idea was nothing but a waste of public treasury and a means to enrich some individuals.
Ganduje added that their calculation clearly shows that the money that would be spent on a single student offered foreign scholarship is more than enough to cater for over 50 students studying in Nigeria.
