Totally unacceptable – Peter Obi condemns abduction of JAMB candidates in Benue

Former Labour Party statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, has powerfully condemned the abduction of candidates of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, successful Benue State.

In a station connected his verified X grip connected Friday, Obi said immoderate federation that abandons its younker abandons its future, stressing that specified insecurity indispensable not continue.

According to him, the quality of the abduction of guiltless UTME candidates successful Benue State is not conscionable heartbreaking but a damning indictment of the nonaccomplishment of enactment and the illness of information successful our nation.

The erstwhile Anambra politician lamented that young Nigerians striving for an acquisition are being met with terror.

He added that successful a state wherever the stock of tertiary graduates is already painfully debased (about 1%) which is acold beneath peers similar Indonesia (about 13%) and South Africa (around 10%), specified an incidental is unacceptable.

“We cannot spend to suffer adjacent 1 much pupil to violence. A federation that abandons its younker abandons its future.

“Those entrusted with protecting these young students look progressively preoccupied with the adjacent election, projecting spot and powerfulness to rig elections, alternatively than deploying that aforesaid powerfulness and a...