Rep. Kayode Akiolu (APC- Lagos ) says he will support a bill that will ban children of public servants from attending private schools, if it includes politicians.

The lawmaker said that such a bill should make everybody put in their best interests for national development.

He made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.

Akiolu represents the Lagos Island II constituency of Lagos state in the 10th National Assembly.

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NAN recalls that the House of Representatives passed for first reading, a bill seeking to prohibit public and civil servants, including their immediate families, from patronising private schools and healthcare facilities in Nigeria.

The bill was sponsored by Mr Godwin Ogah, lawmaker representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia.

Akiolu said: “First things first, I hold a balanced view; what I mean is a balanced view on both sides.

“We are creating a democratic country, which is open, freedom of association, and freedom of movement.

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“However, on the other side, it is presently a proposed bill; maybe the benefit of the bill is to make sure that civil servants put in all the best.

“Also, if I am to support the bill, I would also want it to include all public servants, which includes us, the politicians.”

According to him, that is when the country’s education will be top-notch, world-class, saying, “Because my child is there, the Bank Secretary’s child is there, the President’s child is there.

“We have nowhere but our country. If they amend it to include children of politicians, I am in support 100 per cent,“ he said.

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He said that the support also included visiting the country’s hospitals, saying the nation’s healthcare required investing in, to arrest medical tourism.

“We need to go back to the good old days when Saudi Arabia and some other countries sent their people to Nigeria, including the Saudi royal family.

“In the 60s, and 70s, the Saudi royal family were coming to invest in Ibadan to get treatment. Later, there was a brain drain, and they decided to take our doctors over to Saudi Arabia, in the 80s and mid-90s.

“There is always a reversal; the way people go to India, and different countries of the world, is the way they will start coming to Nigeria.

“So, I think its high time we looked inwards, into our country, “ Akiolu said.

President Bola Tinubu is currently attending the 14th National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, taking place at the State House in Abuja.

The meeting, which commenced at about 2:10 pm, has in attendance members of the party’s NEC, including governors, former governors and leaders of the National Assembly.

Some other ranking and foundation members of the party are also part of the NEC.

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Besides Tinubu, others participating in the ongoing meeting include Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas and Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu.

Also in attendance are the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, PGF, and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, as well as several other governors.

Former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the acting National Chairman, Ali Bukar Dalori, are also present.

Former Minister of Transport and former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has vowed to stop the second-term bid of President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

He accused the President of being insensitive to the welfare of Nigerians and called on the people to register massively for the African Democratic Congress, his new party, to salvage the country.

Amaechi, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 general election, stated this while addressing hundreds of supporters and loyalists who thronged the Port Harcourt International Airport to welcome him on Wednesday.

The former governor announced his official resignation from the APC and had fully joined the coalition to oust President Tinubu.

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He is joined in the coalition by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who had since dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, among others.

Speaking at the Rivers rally, Amaechi said an end must come to Tinubu’s bad government, which he said had brought severe hardship to the people.

He said the ADC would provide the best government the people deserved.

Amaechi stated, “This is just to reassure our supporters and Rivers people that there is a new party in town.

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“Every Rivers man who thinks well of the state and the country should move to register with the new party and ensure that we remove the current government and stop the hunger everybody is suffering from.”

On who gets the ADC’s presidential ticket in 2027, Amaechi said all the contenders would stand by whoever emerged as long as the selection process was credible.

“Anybody who emerges from the primaries, we insist on a free, fair and transparent primary; all of us will support whoever emerges,” he said.

Amaechi told his supporters, “If you are not tired of Tinubu, I’m tired of President Tinubu. If you’re not hungry, I’m hungry.

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“If the rich men are spending N4m a month for electricity, only God knows how you (citizens) are surviving. And the President says he doesn’t care.

“The President says he is not here to make you happy. But ADC is here to make you happy.”

The former governor said he would not work with anyone who joined those who liked to write election results in the state.

“Rivers State is notorious for writing (election) results. When they write the result, they claim they have won.

“I will not work with you if you work with those result snatchers to announce the result. God will bless all of us,” he said.

According to The PUNCH, after driving into town, Amaechi trekked several kilometres from the Waterlines axis to his residence in Old GRA, while acknowledging cheers from residents.