2023: I promise free education at all levels if elected president - Sowore

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has stated that his government will make education free at all levels if he is elected as president.

The activist turned politician made this known during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

When asked asked to throw more light on free education; which is one of the promises in his party’s manifesto, he said, "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”.

According to him, the money drained from Nigeria'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 also compared Nigeria to other oil-producing countries and concluded that they are far ahead of Nigeria, especially when it comes to education.

“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 said.

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