The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of a “shabby and nepotistic” approach to the recently announced recruited teachers list.
The APC in a statement issued on Sunday by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, alleged that the exercise was heavily skewed to favor the Governor’s hometown of Ede at the expense of the other local government areas in the state.
The party in the statement, said Ede South and Ede North were allocated a combined 88 slots, while other local governments were reportedly left with significantly smaller portions.
The APC further alleged that the distribution of slots extended beyond geographical favoritism to political patronage.
The party claimed that high-ranking government officials, including the Deputy Governor, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and chairmen of the PDP and Accord Party, were all granted personal “slots” for the recruitment.
”Like a leopard that can never change its spots, Governor Adeleke has continued with his usual game of nepotism,” Olabisi stated.
He described the modality of the exercise as a “millennium sham” designed to disenfranchise thousands of applicants who had purchased forms and waited over two years for the process to conclude.
The opposition also raised concerns about the transparency of the list, alleging that the local government origins of several successful candidates from Ede were deliberately changed to other areas to “avert misgivings” from the public.
But the state government, through the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, dismissed the allegations as speculative and misleading.
The government maintained that the recruitment followed a structured, phased implementation plan designed to address the deep structural deficits in the education sector inherited from the previous administration.
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