No Subsidy for University Education in Edo- Obaseki

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said there is no plan to subsidize university education in the state.

Obaseki who stated this while inaugurating the Governing Council of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, said his administration would assist students to the extent it could.

While saying his vision was to return Edo to it’s glory days of being the bastion of education in the country, he insisted that he would deploy resources to fund basic education instead of subsidizing university education.

“I am prepared to release fund for building infrastructure in AAU but will not do so until I am assured that the funds would be judiciously used”.

Obaseki said it was worrisome that the AAU was reduced to an institution driven by pure political agenda, and urged the new board to set up an investigation panel to review and understand what went wrong with the university.