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| Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwakwaso |
The presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso disclosed he sold some of his properties so he could provide scholarships for students in Kano State, Nigeria and Africa.
He stated this yesterday at a colloquium organised in his honor by the Kwankwasiyya Movement in collaboration with Scholars Assembly and other Kwankwasiyya organizations in Abuja.
Kwankwanso added that after he left office as governor, he has sold off things that serve no need so he could provide students with scholarships.
“The scholarship beneficiaries, especially the three thousand of them who benefited in four years, I’m so happy and very proud of all of you. Many of them wanted to come.
“I’m happy to say that in the 1999 election in Kano, we had no governor, no minister, no serving or former member. We had just these young men and women and we were able to win our election for the governorship.
“And that was why I was encouraged them by creating the scholarship scheme for our young minds. When we advertise in 2019, believing that there are few people who are first class, we exhausted them in Kano. Second class upper we exhausted them. We were on two to second class lower levels when I left government in 2015 and that is one.
“We had over 3000of them going to 14 countries across the world. I’m also happy that we sponsored students in Nigeria private universities in Nigeria. More than 412 benefited and over 3000 were sent abroad. They are in different sets all sponsored by the Kwankwasiyya foundation,” Kwankwanso said.
“I felt the best investment for any politician is education because I was trained in Kano, in northern Nigeria. And Nigeria can only grow if we have educated people. When I was governor, we were able to feed our children in primary schools, return them to school."