Osun State government and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have disagreed over the poor performance of students in the state in this year’s results released by the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
While the state government disclosed that it is building a solid foundation for students to excel in future, doing this through righting the wrongs identified in the sector, the state PDP described as ‘destructive.’ the way APC-led government is handling the educational system of the state.
The PDP said in a statement by its Chairman, Caretaker Committee, Dr Akindele Adekunle, that it frowned on the backward placement of the state in the recently released performance ranking by WAEC.
According to the statement: “It is a degrading and distasteful result as a function of the laissez-faire attitude of APC-led administration to education in the state, leaving the all-important sector in the hands of do-nothing propagandists, while the proverbial future leaders are having their future inadvertently fogged up.
“Only a government populated by emotionally handicapped adults, whose inability to effectively recognise and interpret the importance of education as the bedrock of societal development, would feel indifferent to the turn of events in Osun basic school education policy, approach and emerging consequence.
“Osun PDP recalled how it had on many occasions advised the outgoing government on the need to prioritise curriculum-based teaching policy over ego massaging or artificial policies which had accumulated negative impacts on the school system in the state.
“For long, the state government had rebuffed all wise counsels to employ competent professionals to fill existing vacancies in key subjects in almost all public secondary schools in the state, in a bid to avert the present disaster.”
However, reacting to the PDP’s statement, one of Governor Oyetola’s aides, Mr Sunday Akere, said: “Much as the PDP will want us to swallow their holier than thou pontification, everybody knows Rome was not built in a day.
“The rot in our educational system requires a deft, systematic approach to get the desired results. What we are doing now is building a solid foundation for our students to excel in future and we are doing this through righting the wrongs identified in the sector and recruiting a capable workforce to fill the existing vacancies.”
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