By Tunde Olamilekan
The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has said the education sector under Governor Ademola Adeleke is poorly funded.
This was as the party said the governor lied that he had recruited 5,000 teachers, adding that Adeleke had not added a single teacher to the employment of the state in the last 35 months.
The Osun APC stated this in a statement by its director of media and information, Kola Olabisi, on Sunday.
The statement noted that the new infrastructure in all the primary, secondary, and higher institutions in the state was provided by the Federal Government through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
“Education is being poorly funded by the administration of Adeleke. The saving grace is the Federal Government which is helping out through UBEC (for Basic education) and the TETFUND ( tertiary education).
“Virtually all the new infrastructure in all the primary, secondary, and higher institutions in Osun State, including benches, chairs, lecture theatres, classrooms, toilets, tarred roads, was provided by the Federal Government through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
“The innocent inhabitants of Osun State are aware of the true state of the running of the government of Senator Adeleke that his claim of the recruitment of 5,000 teachers is not only false, it is spurious, vacuous, and fraudulent.
“Whoever has been critically following the administration of Governor Adeleke would not find it difficult to find out that education is far from its priority as what is left of some of the primary and secondary public schools in the state are mere building structures without commensurate manpower.
“The plight of the state-owned tertiary institutions in the state is more than pathetic as the fees being charged are beyond the affordability of the common people in the state who are ideally supposed to be beneficiaries of any government in power.”
The APC challenged the state government “to provide details of its independent spending in education since November 2022, outside what the Buhari and the Tinubu administrations did to rescue Adeleke’s rudderlessness and perplexity in education.”
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