The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yet again committed another political gaffe, assuring Nigerian tertiary students that they will spend eight years in school should he become President.
The APC standard-bearer who spoke at the party’s presidential rally which held in Osogbo, Osun state, Thursday, said Nigerian students should call him a ‘bastard’ if they exceed ‘eight years’ in school, coming against the backdrop of incessant strikes in Nigerian higher institutions of learning which has become a time waster for students.
Tinubu, while speaking in Yoruba said: “For our children in University, go and write it down, call me bastard, if your days exceed eight years. You will only use eight years in school,”
The statement by the former Lagos Governor is against the current academic calendar of universities and polytechnics across the country which stipulates that a full-time student can only use four years or at most five years to bag a bachelor degree and HND respectively, save for students studying medicine.
This is coming after several gaffes made by Tinubu as the presidential candidate is constantly in the news for making incoherent speeches.
It would be recalled that Tinubu, while praising Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai was heard commending the governor as a leader who has a vision for turning “rotten situation to a bad one.”
Tinubu while campaigning in Plateau state had also said “God bless PDAPC” among several other gaffes documented in viral videos.
