You've Recruited No Teachers In Three Years: Stop The Lies, Osun APC Knocks Adeleke

PRESS STATEMENT.                             (26TH OCTOBER, 2025).

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has bemoaned the state Governor Ademola Adeleke for lying around the town that he has recruited 5,000 teachers when he has not added a single teacher to the employment of the state in the last 35 months he has been in the saddles.

The APC stated that only a dishonest leader would claim he had engaged fresh 5,000 teachers when there has never been anything in sight towards same in the almost three years' life of his government.

Could the touted false recruitment of the teachers have been effected in the dream of the governor  according to a statement affirming the falsehood contained in a video recording that has gone viral?

Would it not be absolutely right for discerning minds to conclude that for the governor to have uttered the statement that his administration had recruited 5,000 teachers points to the fact that he is a stranger to his government in line with the belief that he is running his administration by proxy.

The innocent inhabitants of Osun State are aware of the true state of the running of the government of Senator Adeleke that his claim of the recruitment of 5,000 teachers is not only false, it is spurious, vacuous and fraudulent. 

Perhaps, what Governor Adeleke has wanted to say in the video message was that he sacked the 1,500 teachers recruited by his immediate predecessor, former Governor Gboyega Oyetola now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy for no just cause other than political victimisation and vindictiveness.

One would have expected Governor Adeleke to disclose in the video recording how his administration exploited and duped the 32,000 teaching applicants who were told to apply for jobs by purchasing forms without any positive development traceable to it for three years running.

Governor Adeleke is not adding any value to his government by telling bare-faced lies on the teachers' recruitment that has never taken place during his tenure but rather, it is compounding the poor image of his administration in the estimation of the right-thinking members of the society.

Whoever has been critically following the administration of Governor Adeleke would not find it difficult to find out that education is far from its priority as what is left of some of the primary and secondary public schools in the state are mere building structures without commensurate manpower.

The plight of the state-owned tertiary institutions in the state is more than pathetic as the fees being charged are beyond the affordability of the common people in the state who are ideally supposed to be beneficiaries of any government in power.

In the state owned universities in Ilesa and Osogbo, for instance, students are now charged as much as N1.4 million and N1.5 million per session. How many honest civil servants could afford such exploitative and cut-throat fees? 

Education is being poorly funded by the administration of Adeleke. The saving grace is the Federal Government which is helping out through UBEC (for Basic education) and the TETFUND ( tertiary education).

Virtually all the new infrastructure in all the  primary, secondary and higher institutions in Osun State, including benches, chairs, lecture theatres, classrooms, toilets, tarred roads, were provided by the Federal Government through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).

One would have expected Governor Adeleke in the viral video recording to disclose how his administration awarded a N678 million contract for the reconstruction of the Sango-Timi Shrine and Grove at the Timi Palace, Ede, his home town, at the expense of the funding of education.

The Osun State Government is challenged to provide details of its independent spending in education since November 2022, outside what the Buhari and the Tinubu administrations did to rescue Adeleke's rudderlessness and perplexity in education

e-SIGNED:

Mogaji KOLA OLABISI,                         Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.