Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has said that campaign and other preparations for the February 16 presidential election will not stop him from his routine visit to schools.
Mr Obi said this on Wednesday during a visit to St. Patrick’s Secondary School, Ugwuagba, Obosi, Anambra State.
The former Anambra governor, who encouraged students to remain focused in their academic pursuits, told them that education remained the most essential currency for competition in the world of today.
After a question and answer session with the students, Obi assured them that an Atiku-led government will make education a priority.
“Atiku,” he said, “is education-friendly. I have had many sessions with him on how we would tackle the problem of education in order to get it right. He is saddened by the continual strike by lecturers of higher institution and he is determined that under him, such would not, as now, become a national pastime. Of course, he has asked me those things we did to improve education in Anambra State and he is ready to apply them nationally.”
Speaking on behalf of the students, the senior prefect, Onyekachukwu Obasi, thanked Obi for his wonderful stewardship in Anambra. He said it was under him that their school got brand new buses, computers, generators, internet connectivity, among other necessary infrastructure.
The high point of the visit was Obi’s donation of N2 million for continued infrastructural improvement of the school.
