Why I went back to school to study law - Rotimi Amaechi reveals

Rotimi Amaechi, the former minister of transportation, has disclosed why he went back to study law at the university.

According to him, he went back to school to study Law in order to fulfill his father’s wish to be a lawyer

Rotimi however added that he had no intention of practicing law.

Read his post below:

"Going back to obtain Law degree at 57 is normal. I should have graduated a long time ago. When I hear people say I bought a degree, I just laugh. I laugh because until I started campaigning for presidency, I never missed a class.

"So for three years and six months, I never missed a class. And I came before all the lecturers and I came before all the students.

“The school gave me award for being deligent and punctual. I never failed any course work. But that’s not important, what is important is that I wrote all my course work in person, so they can’t say lecturers gave me pass marks..

"In Baze University, we don’t write matriculation number or our names. They give you a barcode which you place on the answer sheet. So when the teachers mark, they mark what is called blind marking and they can’t take it home.

"They mark there in the school. If they can’t finish, they leave it there and come back the next day. When they come the next day, they continue. And as they are marking, they mark with barcode so they don’t know the name of the person or the matriculation number and I don’t think they are handwriting experts.

"Let me give you an instance. I scored 69 per cent in Jurisprudence which was a B grade. The person who taught me Jurisprudence was my supervisor in my long essay, I’m sure if he had known that it was me, he would have added me one percent to make it 70. The whole faculty was like

“oh, no, he should have added you one percent to make it 70"

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