The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday dismissed Governor Ademola Adeleke’s alleged claim of recruiting 5,000 teachers in the last three years, describing the development as a pack of lies.

The main opposition party contended that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration has not employed a single teacher since its inception in 2022.

A statement by the Osun APC Director of Media and Information, Mr Kola Olabisi, hinted that only a dishonest leader would claim he had engaged 5,000 new teachers when there has never been anything in sight towards the same in the almost three years of his government.

While arguing that Adeleke may be daydreaming over the alleged false recruitment of 5,000 teachers, the opposition party contended that the claim is an indication that Adeleke may be a stranger to his government, in line with the belief that he is running his administration by proxy.
It read, “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?

“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 had 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 barefaced lies on the teachers’ recruitment that has never taken place during his tenure; rather, it is compounding the poor image of his administration in the estimation of right-thinking members of society.

“Whoever has been critically following the administration of Governor Adeleke would not find it difficult to discover 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.”