I didn’t know anything about education when I was appointed minister – Adamu Adamu

I didn’t know anything about education when I was appointed minister – Adamu Adamu

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has expressed surprise at being appointed a minister in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari for a sector he knew nothing about.

Adamu, who is the longest serving minister, stated this at a valedictory session with officials and heads of parastatals of the ministry on Thursday.

He said he had to apply wisdom by appointing some professors of education and other good hands, with the help of the officials of the Federal Ministry of Education to enable him kick off and make progress.

“I didn’t know anything about education sector when I was appointed Minister except superficially. But when Buhari decided to make me Minister of education, I called some people to assist me work on policy document on education because I was novice in the sector. I shared my idea with them and they assisted me greatly, and I remain grateful to them for these years,” he said.

The minister appreciated the President who found him worthy and trusted him with such a responsibility, “even when I was apparently not ready and unprepared for such task”.

He said, “I was busy making recommendations and suggestions to the President on who to appoint into his cabinet in 2015.”