The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of bastardising the future of the pupils and students of the primary and secondary schools in the state with its announcement of the deployment of 1,750 Imole Corps teachers to the schools in the state.
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.
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.
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.
e-SIGNED:
*Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.*
