APC Faults Adeleke On Teacher Recruitment, Says ‘Not One Hired In 35 Months’

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of misleading the public over claims that his administration recruited 5,000 teachers in the last three years.

In a statement issued on Sunday by its Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the opposition party said the claim — made by the governor in a viral video — was “false, spurious and fraudulent,” stressing that no teacher has been added to the state’s payroll since November 2022.

The APC wondered “if the said recruitment happened in the governor’s dream,” insisting that only “a dishonest leader” would make such a claim when “there has never been anything in sight” to support it.

The statement alleged that rather than employ teachers, the present administration sacked 1,500 teachers engaged by former governor Gboyega Oyetola “for no just cause other than vindictiveness.”

It further accused the governor of exploiting over 32,000 applicants who bought forms for teaching jobs “without any positive outcome three years after.”

According to the opposition party, education has suffered neglect under Adeleke, with schools “reduced to mere buildings without manpower,” while fees in state-owned tertiary institutions, especially in Osogbo and Ilesa, are now “as high as N1.4m to N1.5m per session,” pricing out children of civil servants.

The APC maintained that most of the education infrastructure presently seen in schools — including classrooms, lecture theatres, furniture and roads — were funded by the Federal Government through UBEC and TETFund, not by the state government.

It also took a swipe at the administration for allegedly prioritising a “N678 million contract for the Sango-Timi Shrine and Grove in Ede” over education spending.

Challenging the state government to publish details of any education expenditure funded without federal intervention, the opposition said Adeleke “is compounding the poor image of his administration by telling bare-faced lies.”

The state government had yet to respond to the allegations at press time.