By Ayodele Oni
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State said it is shameful that the state placed 36th in the recent West African Examinations Council (WAEC) performance index.
In the WAEC ranking, Osun is 36th out of 36 states, including FCT.
The PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, asked the Governor Gboyega Oyetola-led government to apologize to the people of Osun State for “a destructive handling of the education system that led to the state’s very shameful placement.”
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday in response to the recent state-by-state performance record in the Senior School Certificate Examination for the 2022 calendar year.
The PDP lamented the distasteful result as a function of the laissez-faire attitude of the All Progressive Congress (APC) led administration to education in the state.
PDP accused the APC administration of leaving the all-important sector in the hands of ‘do-nothing propagandists,’ while the proverbial future leaders are having their future inadvertently fogged up.
“For long, the state government had rebuffed all wise counsels to employ competent professionals to fill existing vacancies in key subjects in almost all public secondary schools in the state, in a bid to avert the present disaster.
“What more, Oyetola is happy expending parts of the funds expected to be used to revamp the badly bleeding education sector in the state on illegal local government elections that will surely fall flat.
“These are streams of misplaced priorities for which innocent students are being made to suffer heartaches and bleak futures through faulty education.”
Promising a better education system, the PDP pledged that under the Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, “parents, whose wards have been subjected to psychological trauma with the unsavory performance in WAEC and other basic examinations of better days ahead.
“Senator Ademola Adeleke’s administration, as promised during electioneering, will set education as topmost priority by restoring sanity to the sector, away from personal aggrandizement.”
 in Osun State said it is shameful that the state placed 36th in the recent West African Examinations Council (WAEC) performance index. In the WAEC ranking, Osun is 36th out of 36 states, including FCT.){kind=link}