The Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
has said that the "embarrassing outing" posted by the students that
sat for the last May/June West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, examination in
public schools in the state has confirmed the earlier stand of the party about
some polices of the present administration in the state.
The party decried what it called "declining standard of
education in the state under the leadership of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola”, saying
education sector in the state is gradually drifting towards total collapse and
blamed the situation on the perceived resolve by the government to impress and
empower "few party boys" at the expense of imparting positively on
people.
The party said the extent at which the state has sank
education-wise was evidenced by the statistical analysis of the last May/June
West Africa Examination Council, WAEC results, published on the website of the
body, which placed Osun state in the 22nd position coming behind states like
Kogi and Benue.
The party, in a statement signed by Prince Diran Odeyemi,
its Director of Media and Strategy and made available to The Anchor, said the
"quick slide from the Mount Olympus of educational growth by Osun state
which occupied 9th position in 2009 according to WAEC passing rate, to the
abyss of mediocrity few years after" has given the present administration
out as the one with "much fuss and less focus."
The statement reads: "falling to ignominious 22nd
position less than 4 years of Mr Rauf Aregbesola's reign, despite the
introduction of over-hyped, controversy-riddden Opon Imo, tablets of knowledge,
among other ill-conceived initiatives like O' schools, should be enough reason
for a serious governor to resign from office.
It would be recalled that it took a PDP governor voted in
2003 more than 3 years to redirect the troubled ship of education in the state
occasioned by the improper management of the sector by the AD administration
that preceded it.
The fact remains that the mess the offshoot of AD governor
of 1999-2003 has created in the same education sector between 2010 and 2014 has
not only put the future of many of those in the upcoming generation in the
state in jeopardy, but is also an indication that Aregbesola would prefer
raising more Okada riders than doctors, lawyers and other professionals".
Odeyemi also stated that "today, regardless of the huge
media hype woven round the school reclassification programme of the present
administration, through which public schools in the state were forcefully
lumped and the initial over 2,000 public primary and secondary schools,
compressed to less than 200 primary, middle and secondary schools, the initiative
remains counterproductive as shown by the last WAEC result.
"Our investigations also revealed that, going by the
results of students that sat for the last WAEC in public schools in the state,
Osun actually placed 30th among the 36 states in the country. We leave the
informed people of Osun state to ponder on this development and join efforts to
return the state to path of progress and prosperity.
"On our part, the PDP assures all good people of the
state that it will continue to champion noble causes and keep the welfare of
people on the front burner."
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