{"id":26715,"date":"2014-05-18T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26715"},"modified":"2014-05-18T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T18:36:00","slug":"awos-free-education-remains-swests-greatest-legacy-mimiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/awos-free-education-remains-swests-greatest-legacy-mimiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Awo\u2019s Free Education Remains S\/West\u2019s Greatest Legacy \u2014Mimiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;\">The governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Saturday, said the free education policy introduced by the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, remained the greatest legacy of the Southwestern region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;\">Mimiko, who spoke at the commissioning of the Labour Party (LP) secretariat in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, eulogised Awolowo for making education accessible to the common man.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  6px;\">Mimiko, who was in company of the former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, and the party\u2019s National Chairman, Barrister Dan Nwanyawu, led thousands of party faithful from all the 20 council areas of the state to the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">He argued that any government where people could not afford basic tuition fees could not be described as progressive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">According to him, \u201cIf not for Papa Awolowo\u2019s free education, those in government today would not even get close to the government house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cThe greatest legacy we have in the Southwest today is that somebody made education accessible to everybody irrespective of their background.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cIf there is a government where some people cannot go to the university because they cannot pay, that government is not a progressive,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">The governor promised the party\u2019s support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 polls, urging well-meaning Nigerians to intensify their prayers for him in the face of daunting security challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Daniel in his remarks said the party had resolved to work for Jonathan\u2019s victory in the next presidential election, asking Nigerians to pray for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cWe are praying for President Jonathan. 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I have the permission of our people that by the special grace of God rather than harass the government of the day, we want everybody to go out and support President Jonathan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Tribune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Saturday, said the free education policy introduced by the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, remained the greatest legacy of the Southwestern region.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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