- Safiu Kehinde
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, of ruining the future of the pupils and students of the primary and secondary schools in the state with his deployment of 1,750 Imole Corps teachers to the schools.
NPO earlier Reported the governor’s deployment of the ad hoc teachers in said effort to address personnel shortage in some schools and to prepare ground for the expansion of teaching personnel in critical subject areas.
Reacting to the development in a statement issued on Wednesday, the Osun APC spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, labelled the deployment as an indication of the governor’s inability to deliver quality governance.
Coupled with his condemnation of Adeleke’s flyover construction projects, Olabisi described the deployment of the Imole Youths corps to schools as a collective calamity in the educational sector.
“The news of the deployment of the Imole Corps teachers to the state government-owned primary and secondary schools in the state by Governor Adeleke is an indication that he is utterly confused and absolutely derailed in the act of quality governance which he swore to uphold during his inauguration as the state governor.
“The excuse of the Adeleke-led government for deploying untrained ad hoc teachers to the public schools is an indication that it is engaging in misplaced priorities three years running into his four-year administration.
“For God’s sake, it defies logic how a government that is constructing five needless flyovers with billions of naira, purchased multi-million naira vehicles for the unproductive members of his cabinet with billions of naira to feed in the Government House could have the lever to announce to the public that it is posting 1,750 untrained teachers to the public schools in the state.
“There is no doubting the fact that Governor Adeleke has lost focus and he has confirmed beyond reasonable doubt with his actions and inactions in the public office that he does not have what it takes to govern a complex state like Osun.
“The genuine stakeholders in the Osun State project should see this strange policy of Governor Adeleke as a collective calamity in the educational sector which should be condemned in its entirety.” Olabisi wrote.
The APC spokesperson questioned the governor over the fate of the teacher-applicants who had long been interviewed across the schools in the state.
“What will happen to the thousands of the teacher-applicants who had been interviewed and were expecting to resume at their different schools in the state without luck?
“How about the money with which the teacher-applicants spent in procuring forms for the teaching employments which is in millions of naira that never see the light of day?
“What type of legacy or example is the state government laying down for the teacher-applicants which the Adeleke-led administration has scammed with the failed contractual agreement to employ them?
“The other states in the comity of the sub-nationals would be making mockery of this non-thoughtful policy of the verifiably confused Adeleke administration.” He added.
Olabisi demanded that the governor tender apology to the parents of the students for allegedly wasting their votes and over his sacking of the 1,500 teachers reportedly employed by his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola.
“The only option left for Governor Adeleke is to resign his governorship position and tender an unreserved apology to the unsuspecting parents of these pupils who mistakenly wasted their votes on him during the 2022 elections.
“It will now dawn on Governor Adeleke that governance is not a tea party, and it goes beyond dancing at any slightest opportunity which has become his infamous hallmark.
“One wonders why Governor Adeleke sacked the1,500 teachers duly employed by his predecessor out of political victimisation immediately he assumed the mantle of leadership in the state about three years ago without any replacement since then.” Olabisi wrote.