Former President Goodluck Jonathan met with President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, their first official meeting since the former Lagos State Governor emerged as President.
The purpose of the visit, according to Jonathan, who also serves as the head of the ECOWAS Mediation Team in Mali, was to discuss problems affecting Africa and the West African area.
“I came to brief the president about some continental and subcontinental bodies,” he told journalists on his exit from the State House in Abuja.
“I am the ECOWAS mediator for Mali and I’m the chair of the West African Elders Forum. So, there are certain issues bordering on the continent and the subregion that I discuss with various presidents.”
Abiodun Oladunjoye, the State House’s director of information, said that Tinubu also received the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
In order to guarantee that all Nigerian children, regardless of their circumstances, have access to high-quality education, the President promised that his administration will devote additional resources to the education sector.
He also stressed the importance of education’s transformative potential in the fight against poverty by saying that poverty should not be a barrier to education.
”If we all believe that education is the greatest weapon against poverty then we have to invest in it,” he was quoted as saying.
”Poverty should not prevent anybody, any child, including the daughter or son of a wood seller, ‘Bole’ (plantain) seller or yam seller from attaining their highest standard of education, to eliminate poverty.
”If you eliminate poverty from one family, you can carry the rest of the weight