Former Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ahmed Makarfi has disclosed why he settled for accounting instead of medicine that he initially desired to study.
Makarfi, a former Kaduna State Governor from 1999 to 2007, made this known in an interview with The Punch.
Makarfi obtained a Bachelors and Masters degree in Accounting from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, but he revealed that accounting was not his first choice of course.
He said, “I initially wanted to study Medicine but I got discouraged by the quality of our science teacher in secondary school, who was a Chinese man. He only used to repeat all that was in the textbook on the board for us. I felt he wasn’t doing anything because we could as well just read the textbooks because he didn’t add anything to it. I then took to accounting.”
Meanwhile, he urged relevant political stakeholders to take the issue of restructuring of the nation seriously, saying it would bring a solution to many of the problems confronting the nation presently.
Speaking on restructuring, Makarfi said, “I don’t want to politicise the issue but it is something that we cannot run away from. In the PDP, we regard it as one of the most important things that we have to fix. If I am lucky to be elected by Nigerians, I would make sure that we immediately discuss the nature and timeframe for restructuring.
“Restructuring is institutional. For a long time, the institutions of state, such as security, have been designed to serve those in power and not the citizens. We must remove them from economic domination.”