Govt has abandoned education, Atiku reacts to Kogi school kidnappings

File: Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar.

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed the President Bola Tinubu-led government over the abduction of students, a school principal and a National Examinations Council official in Kogi State.

Atiku said that with the recent abduction, the Federal Government has abandoned education while allowing insecurity to destroy the nation’s future.

Reacting to the attack at Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, where gunmen abducted the school’s principal, a NECO ad-hoc official and students writing the ongoing Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Atiku described the incident as evidence of a government that has failed in its constitutional duty to protect lives and educational institutions.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president said it was “both tragic and disgraceful” that Nigerian students could no longer sit for public examinations without the fear of being kidnapped.