PM NEWS
23rd October, 2021
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said his father was jailed for failing to send him to school.
Atiku said his father later embraced the idea of education and despite his humble background he enjoyed quality education free of charge.
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election stated this while delivering a speech at the Baze University Graduation ceremony in Abuja on Friday.
In his speech titled, ‘Solving Nigeria’s Education Challenges’, Atiku said when he was young, anytime he came back from primary school, he would take his neighbour’s cattle to the bush for rearing in exchange for grains that he gave to his grandparents to feed the household.
“I was a schoolboy and a herdsboy, and I fed my family,” he said.
“When I was 11 years old, my father drowned and died while crossing a river in the neighbourhood. He was not up to 40 years.
