Adamu, now the longest-serving education minister in Nigeria, was in charge when public universities were shut due to ASUU strike for six months.
Minister of Education Adamu Adamu has admitted he had a “superficial” knowledge of the education sector when he was appointed to head the Federal Ministry of Education.
The minister said on Thursday at a valedictory service in his honour that to make up for his lack of knowledge, he consulted professors of education who assisted him in setting a roadmap for the education sector.
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In 2016, Adamu unveiled the ‘Education for Change: A Ministerial Strategic Plan (MSP)’ for the country’s education sector.
The minister commended the contributions of the late Prof. Gidado Tahir and Dr Abdulraman Umar to the document. He also hailed the Head of Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, who was the permanent secretary at the time, for adopting the document.
He said: “I didn’t know anything about education except superficially. When Buhari decided to make me Minister of Education, there is somebody here who was the first person I called. He said ‘What do you want to achieve?’ I said good things. And these are my ideas as a learner.
“After that meeting professors of education were called and I told them what I wanted to achieve and let them put it in writing for me and they did. And then we had a document.”
Adamu has now become the longest-serving education minister following his appointment in 2015.
His tenure witnessed the highest number of industrial actions from unions in tertiary institutions amid increase in registered institutions.
