Before February 2023, a total of one million Nigerians are expected to gain access to the scholarships and agricultural loans/grants programme sponsored by Professor Christopher Imumolen.
The prizes, according to Imumolen, the presidential candidate for the Accord Party (AP), were in keeping with his pledge to support his campaigns with deeds rather than just words.
The youngest flagbearer promised to run a campaign that presented solutions to the numerous issues Nigerians confront in order to demonstrate what he would actually accomplish if elected president.
Imumolen stated his intention to make a stark break from the dishonourable past, in which politicians made pledges that they typically broke once they entered the halls of power.
According to the benefactor, 500,000 students would receive degree scholarships, and an equal number of farmers would receive grants and loans to help them with their agricultural endeavours.
“We have concluded plans to award a new set of students and farmers scholarships and loans to facilitate both their academic and agricultural activities”, he disclosed in a statement at the weekend.
“The gesture is in line with our promise that we shall prosecute a result-oriented campaigns where our people will feel our impact, as well as get a foretaste of what it would look like if I become Nigeria’s president come 2023.
“Besides, we would be using these humanitarian gestures to tell Nigerians that we are a new breed of politicians who are pragmatic in our approach to solving their problems than making mere promises that are seldom kept.
“What we are doing is not new. It has always been in our DNA to reach out and touch lives in a positive way over the years.
“In the last 15 years, we have affected more lives in our private capacity than even some government agencies with humongous sums of money as yearly budgets.
“In over a decade and half, over 500,000 students have been supported with funds to run their education in several tertiary institutions in Nigeria up till graduation.
“And the interesting part of the story is, we didn’t do these things because we expected to be rewarded or foresaw taking part in any presidential elections.
“The same thing we’ll be doing for our farmers who have also been given loans and grants to run their agricultural activities.
“We have also empowered many women and youths in the area of skill acquisition and loans for small and medium scale enterprises (SME’s),” he said.
Following prior acts of kindness in Kabba (Kogi State) and Sango Otta (Ogun State), where more than 4,000 students benefited from his scholarship programme, Professor Imumolen has made his most recent gesture.
Each of the 2,000 kids in Kabba received a regal N2 million to fund their academic endeavours through graduation.
He claims that the exercise’s fortunate recipients would receive their scholarships and loans before February, when the presidential election will take place.
