Tertiary education is not a human right, according to Ayo Oyalowo, a member of the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council.
This information was revealed by Ayo Oyalowo in a Politics Today interview on Channels TV.
The APC leader was responding to a statement made by Anthony Elihebo, a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, who made reference to a statement made by PDP presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar regarding university education in light of the current Academic Staff Union of Universities strike.
Oyalowo claimed that although Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, does not own a private institution, he is aware of the value of education.
Thank God Asiwaju doesn’t have a private university, he remarked. Although you can check to see if universities in Lagos are not on strike, I believe he is aware. It informs you of the ongoing investment he has made in education since he was governor. Institutions in Lagos are not on strike right now, which shows that he is aware of what it means to educate people.
“I think we make so much noise about tertiary education that I think we don’t always understand. Tertiary education is not ‘a human right.’ I mean basically by WHO standard primary and secondary schools are actually a right; it’s a criminal offence not to allow people to go through.
“If we do so well in primary and secondary schools, we will not have so much problem in the university. The reason is that if you go to the university and you see some of the people we produce as graduates, you will be sad. So we need to develop the bedrock of education. ASUU has always been on strike.”
