FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has expressed disappointment over the existing infrastructural facilities at the Abuja University of Technology, Abaji which is still under construction.
Wike, who stated this on Friday during a stakeholders’ town hall meeting in Abaji, described the school as a ‘glorified secondary school’ unworthy of the image of the nation’s capital city.
Responding to an appeal for the completion of the university in September from the Chairman of Abaji Area Council, Hon. Abubakar Abdullahi, Wike said that the structures at the school were not up to the required standards and would be impossible for him to open the project in September this year.
While assuring the residents of Bwari and the FCT in general of his willingness to complete the university, the minister said he would invite the Mandate Secretary of Education Secretariat to bring the master plan of the school for a review.
“I am not going to promise you here that it will be September, I won’t do that. Any thing worth doing, is worth doing well. I cannot be a minister of the FCT and come to where we want to open a university as if it is a glorified secondary school, I will not do that.
“If I go back, I am going to summon the mandate secretary education to bring me the master plan of this university. You will see how serious we will be to making sure the basic facilities are put in place and then the university can start up well. I don’t want to stand here now in order to make you happy to say September, I won’t do that. That is political talk, am not here to do political talk, I am here to talk and do”.
Construction work at the university, owned by the Federal Capital Territory, started in 2011 and is yet to commence academic activities.
