Professor Ambrose Alli having won his governorship election on the platform of the unity party of Nigeria {UPN}. The party election manifesto promised free education at all level; free medical service, integrated rural development, and full and gainful employment. The main thrust of the four-year administration professor Alli was the liberalization of educational opportunities for all.

Between October 1979 and March 1980, professor Alli’s administration established 80 new secondary schools in the state in addition to 187 already in existence with the policy of free education at all levels in the state. Approval was also given for the establishment of 338 new secondary school in all parts of the state in such a way that no pupil would thenceforth travel more than five kilometres from his home to attend a school…read more