Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has ruled out subsidising university education in the state.
He said the bulk of the state budget for education was channelled towards funding basic education.
Obaseki who stated this while inaugurating the Governing Council of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, said his administration would assist students to the extent it could.
Obaseki said his vision is to return Edo to it’s glory days of being the bastion of education in the country, insisting that he would deploy resources to fund basic education instead of subsidising university education.
According to him, “I am prepared to release fund for building infrastructure in AAU but will not do so until I am assured that the funds would be judiciously used”.