IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The overall best candidate for the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, in Jigawa state has expressed displeasure over the scholarship promise made by Governor Abubakar Badaru.
Nura Inuwa Fagam, the overall best candidate in the WAEC result released in 2018, in a recent interview maintained that the governor is yet to fulfill the promise of sending him outside the shores of Nigeria to study since he made the promise four years ago.
According to Daily Nigerian, the kid who graduated from the Jigawa State Academy for the Gifted in Bamaina, in 2018, had the best result in the history of the state.
In the result, Fagam, aged 20, scored 8 distinctions (As) and 1 B.
Speaking to the news medium, Fagam, who is from Fagam town in Gwaram local government, said after his meeting with the governor of the state, Badaru Abubakar, in 2018, the promise of sending him to India to study, is yet to be fulfilled, four years after.
Fagam said since the government’s promise to sponsor him abroad was not forthcoming, he applied and gained admission to study medicine and surgery at the Federal University Dutse.
He, however, noted that his studies have been very challenging due to his poor family background, adding that he lacks the basic learning materials that would ease his studies.
He said: “Since that promise was made, I haven’t heard anything from the state government.”
Fagam, however, noted that the deputy governor of the state has promised to find out what could possibly lead to the actual delay of the scholarship.