Obasanjo Doubts Corruption-Free Student Loan Scheme, Appeals To Tinubu

• Former President Obasanjo expresses reservations about Tinubu’s Student Loan Scheme

• Obasanjo urges Tinubu to include students of private universities in the loan scheme

• Obasanjo questions the ability to run the scheme without corruption

Eko Hot Blog reports that former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed reservations about the Student Loan Scheme of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

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Obasanjo, while speaking at the inauguration of a building at Bells University’s College of Postgraduate Studies in Ota, Ogun State, urged Tinubu to include students of private universities among the loan scheme’s beneficiaries.

The ex-president, who is the proprietor of Bell University of Technology, opined that the loan scheme was crucial for societal development and citizens’ welfare, and excluding a group would be counterproductive.

However, Obasanjo raised doubts about the scheme running without recording corrupt practices, stating, “I doubt if the scheme will be run without corruption, that is another matter entirely.”

Separately, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, expressed disappointment over the apparent indifference of the party’s founding figures, including Obasanjo and former President Goodluck Jonathan, towards the internal conflicts plaguing the PDP.

Sowunmi, a former Ogun PDP governorship aspirant, called out Obasanjo and Jonathan for their lack of intervention in the party’s longstanding disputes while speaking on Channels Television’s “Politics Today.”

The call for action comes amid recent demands by some PDP legislators in the House of Representatives for the resignation of National Chairman Umar Damagum, accusing him of favoring the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

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Sowunmi highlighted the “Wike problem” – a reference to the challenges posed by Nyesom Wike, the former Rivers State Governor – as a significant factor in the ongoing leadership strife within the PDP.

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