Ododo commends President for passing bill
President Bola Tinubu has said a brighter future awaits Nigerian children with his signing into law the Student Loans Re-enactment Bill. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday night when he hosted members of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and the Independent Campaign Council to Iftar at the State House, Abuja.
“The only thing that can fight poverty is education. Today, I signed the bill for the Student Loan Scheme. Imagine the children of the poor; what about people going through the mud, and fishing in the ponds? How do you tell their children that their future will be brighter? It is only through education that we can fight poverty. A promising future awaits our children,” he affirmed.
Acknowledging members of the PCC and ICC for their rigorous efforts toward his election, the President said: “It is your footwork and footprints that made me the President. I campaigned on hope, and you promised Nigerians hope and a good result when campaigning for me. There are a lot of expectations. I, therefore, have to work hard for it. There is a windy road we are travelling on. We have to navigate carefully. Otherwise, one ends up in the bush, and that is all I have been focused on.”
Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio; Director-General of the defunct PCC, Senator Simon Lalong, and the Director-General of the defunct ICC, in their various remarks, thanked the supporters for their perseverance, assuring them that the President had not forgotten all their efforts and would not disappoint them.
MEANWHILE, Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has commended Tinubu for assenting to the Nigeria Student Loan Bill. Reacting to the Wednesday signing of the bill into law, Ododo noted that the Student Loan Act would improve the quality of education and increase access to education for millions of Nigerian youths and children from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds in the country.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Ismaila Isah, the governor expressed delight that the President was placing a premium on the provision of quality education to Nigerians, adding that education was a veritable tool for empowering the people and an enabler for more Nigerians to ascend the socio-economic ladder irrespective of their social and economic backgrounds.
