Why Ekiti performed poorly in 2018 WAEC —Dayo Adeyeye

A chieftain of the All Peoples Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has attributed the mass failure of the indigenes of Ekiti State in the just-released results of the West African School Certificate (WAEC) examinations to an alleged systemic breakdown of education under the present administration in the state in the past three and half years.

He said this in a press statement issued on his behalf by the Director of Publicity of his former campaign organisation, PAAM, Mr Niyi Ojo, adding that he was shocked by the position of the state in the examination results released on Wednesday.

“One is shocked by the abysmal mass failure of Ekiti  students in the recently released WAEC 2018 results placing  the state on number 23 out of 36 states.

“We have earlier cried to the public that the celebrated achievement of coming first in NECO Examination was as a result of concerted efforts made by Oni/Fayemi administrations to reposition the education sector.

“It takes time for a seed to germinate and bear fruits. The results of the giant strides of the two former administrations and huge investment in pedagogical and infrastructural facilities was undeservedly appropriated by the Governor Ayo Fayose as his achievements.

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“One wondered then how you could achieve such outstanding result without any investment whatsoever in infrastructural and human capital development. Fayose was claiming that he could reap without sowing. Now the deceit has finally been exposed.

“There has not been recruitment of teachers to teach these students in the last three and half years. In most schools, graduates of Religious Studies are made to teach English Language; Physics graduates are teaching Chemistry and Business Administrator are teaching Accounting,’’ he said.

“The Core Subjects Allowance paid by Fayemi as well as Rural Allowance were cancelled by Fayose. Salaries are owed for up to eight months arrears. No furniture for teachers and students. The morale in education sector fell to the lowest ebb.

“The teachers are not motivated and students are groaning under taxation by the government that kept most of them out of the school  compound. No provision of textbooks and other instructional materials to aid learning,” the statement read.

Adeyeye, who was a former Minister of State for Works, also carpeted the Fayose administration for allegedly politicising the education sector in the state, noting that this accounted for the downward trend in the fortunes of the sector from its erstwhile enviable position among states in the country.