Edo APC Bombs Obaseki Over Rot In Education, Scarcity Of Teachers

The All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo State on Sunday launched an offensive against the educational policies of the Governor Godwin Obaseki led administration describing them as failures as reflected in the scarcity of trained teachers.

Noting what it described as the insensitivity of the administration to the cries of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT on the issue, the APC in a statement made available to GWG.NG called on the government to have a change of heart in the interest of the children whom it said are the leaders of tomorrow.

Recall that Comrade Bernard Gbenga Ajobiewe, the state chairman of the NUT had while welcoming Governor Obaseki to the World Teachers Day lamented that the shortage of teachers across Edo State public schools has become an embarrassment.

According to him, “Our schools are grossly under-staffed especially primary and secondary schools in our rural communities…we need permanent teachers that would take the job more seriously. No matter the beauty of the schools, with all the infrastructure without teachers, whatsoever that is put in place in the system is cosmetic at best. So, there is urgent need to step up the staffing requirements in our schools”.

The statement issued by Victor Ofure Osehobo, Assistant State Publicity Secretary, APC, Edo State, while noting the failure of the Obaseki government to augment the number of trained teachers in the state, read in part:

“As a party, we condemn the inaction of Obaseki’s government – it is inexcusable, because such nonchalance and indifference has only served, since 2016 to paralyze the once vibrant education sector in our State.

“The insensitivity of the  Governor became glaring over the years when repeatedly he claimed to have transformed Education  with the fictitious EdoBest 1.0 and very recently with EdoBest 2.0. Obviously, the two programs are hallmarks of his Make Edo Grounded Again, MEGA policy.

“Edo people know that the so called EdoBest 1.0 as it turned out, was the governor’s purchase, in billions of Naira, of fairly used handheld devices for non-existent teachers. Because it was a hoax, the governor recently renamed it EdoBest 2.0 with the announcement of a change in the designation of heads of  schools as Executive headmasters or Principals.

“We call on the Edo state government to do some soul-searching over its failure as it has left children without quality education which is the key to their leadership of tomorrow.

“Only a careless and inept leadership like the PDP government would ignore the danger signals a decline in education standards pose to the future of our state. This is why we align with the NUT and insist that, for the future of our State to be reassured, the Governor Obaseki government must immediately begin the recruitment of trained teachers and deploy them to schools across the state.

“Edo state belongs to all of us, just as every Edo child has a right to quality education; no government should mortgage education, which is the lifeblood of any society for any reason or under any guise, whatsoever.”

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