Children dropping out of school under Buhari – Gulak

Leke Baiyewu and Bayo Akinloye

A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Ahmed Gulak, has said that under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, children were dropping out of schools due to the economic hardship the country faces.

In an interview with our correspondents, Gulak stated that President Buhari and his political party, the All Progressives Congress, had failed to live up to people’s expectation.
“If our country is attractive to investors, they will rush into the country; we don’t have to go out to look for them. But, be that as it may, Mr. President has been advised to go out there and woo investors, by going to China, Dubai, Qatar, United States and the United Kingdom. The world is a global village today; (all countries are) intertwined. I think Mr. President should stay at home and address the issues confronting his people.


“But they should now realise that they are no longer in opposition. They are now the ruling party. So they should get down from the horse of opposition and begin to really address issues for Nigerians to know that the change they were promised and voted for is real. Ask any Nigerian on the street today, ‘How do you see the change of the ruling party?’ Your guess is as good as mine. Children are dropping out of school because their parents cannot pay school fees. Parents are losing their jobs because their employers cannot pay,” Gulak said.

According to him, Buhari’s foreign trips to woo investors to do business with Nigeria will be effective if the issues plaguing the country were solved.

Gulak, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, urged Buhari to stop complaining about the alleged misrule of the PDP but to focus on how to move the country forward.

“Nigeria needs somebody who will do the job and not somebody who can explain why he cannot do the job. Sixteen years of Peoples Democratic Party rule, I can name achievements of the party. Take communications for example in the country; it was like the issue of electricity – not more than 400 people could have access to telephone. But when the PDP came in, millions of people now have telephone lines; telecommunication was revolutionised.

“So, it is left for this government now to pick things up from where the PDP left them. But because of internal crisis within the (APC) government, this administration has not been able to make any significant inroad in what they have inherited,” he added.