Omoyele Sowore, a presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC), stated that if elected in 2023, his government will prioritize education and make it free for all students.
Sowore made this disclosure in an interview with Sunday Politics on Channels Television.
“Free education is one of the key promises in our party manifesto. It is for every level. The money is there. I keep saying this to Nigerians and I say it with that knowledge of how they manage Nigeria’s economy,” he said.
According to Sowore, the money siphoned from the country’s coffers in the past 16 years is “enough to have supported free education in this country or to have supported it for 50 years or 100 years ahead of now.”
Sowore pointed out that Nigeria is falling behind other oil-producing nations, especially the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
He said, “They provide free education for everybody. They even pay people to get married and we all started with the same oil that we are selling.
“But what we have been doing in Nigeria is corporate welfare and individual powerful people welfare,” he added.
Furthermore, Sowore pledged to decentralize the power industry if elected, estimating that the plan would produce 24,000 megawatts of electricity in four years.