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Kwankwaso: Students won’t pay for WAEC, NECO, JAMB if I’m elected

Presidential candidate of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Senotor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has promised to pay WAEC, NECO and JAMB fee of students if elected president in forthcoming general elections.

In an interview with BBC Hausa, he said if elected, JAMB result will be valid four years instead of one.

He said, “We listened to people’s complaints, wherever we go, we explain our manifesto and our plans to people especially on education sector. We will build 500,000 primary schools blocks in four years.

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“We will enroll all the 20 millions out of school children, we have plans to pay WAEC, NECO including JAMB for students and the JAMB result validity period will be lasting four years not that every year students sitting for it if they didn’t get admission.”

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On their alliance with Labour Party presidential candidate, Kwankwaso said he refused to withdraw for Peter Obi because he is more experienced than him.

“He (Peter Obi) served as governor only but I have done various jobs; I worked for the government for 17 years, he did not do it, I became the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, he did not do it. I participated in the constitutional conference, he didn’t.

“Apart from these, I was a senator, he didn’t, Even our education, if you look at it, you will understand that It’s not the same,” he said.

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