Former Vice President and Founder of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Atiku Abubakar, has reaffirmed his belief in education as the most powerful tool for individual and national progress, speaking to the AUN graduating class of 2025.
In a podcast produced by AUN’s Communications and Multimedia Design department, he shared personal experiences, including, “My father was jailed for resisting my enrollment in school. We started from nothing — sitting on the bare ground, writing with our fingers. That’s how far I’ve come.”
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Atiku clarified that the founding of AUN was inspired by his interaction with the American Peace Corps in 1961, rather than solely by his childhood hardships.
“The AUN story is different. It was the American Peace Corps who taught me in 1961 that truly ignited the vision,” he explained.
He also stressed the virtues of patience and courage, relating personal stories of overcoming challenges.
“I’ve faced tribulations. I’ve been hunted, but I never wavered,”he recounted.“Patience is not weakness. It is a weapon of the wise. When we resisted military dictatorship, they offered me a governorship without an election — I rejected it. In 1999, I earned it the right way and became Vice President.”
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