The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) presidential candidate in 2023. Atiku Abubakar, has criticized the Federal Government policy which pegged admission age for tertiary institutions at 18
It would be recalled that the Federal Government announced that candidates must be 18 years old before they are admitted into tertiary institutions.
Recently, Education Minister, Tahir Mamman said that the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and the National Examinations Council, NECO, has been instructed not to allow underage children to write their examinations.
However, in its Reaction, Atiku on his X said the policy belongs to the Stone ages.
According to him, the recent policy is an absurdity and a disincentive to scholarship.
He added that it is embarrassing that the FG said it had no plan to cater to specially gifted pupils.
“The policy runs foul of the notion of delineation of responsibilities in a federal system of government such as we are practicing and gives a graphic impression of how the Tinubu government behaves like a lost sailor on a high sea.
Otherwise, how is such anti-scholarship regulation the next logical step in the myriad of issues besetting our educational system?
“To be clear, the Nigerian constitution puts education in the concurrent list of schedules, in which the sub-national government enjoys more roles above the federal government.
