Senator Uche Chukwumerije, chairman of the Senate committee on education, has withdrawn his support for the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. This is coming 1 week to the 9th August 2014 guber election in Osun State. As of yesterday, some newspapers still published an advertorial of Chukwumerije’s endorsement for Aregbesola. Making a reversal in a statement issued yesterday, Chukwumerije said the education policies which the governor started (in 2012 while he (Chukwumerije) led a delegation of the Senate Committee on Education on a supervisory visit to Osun) have been reportedly darkened over the years.
At the time, Chukwumerije said: “The Governor of Osun is God-sent to his people. Aregbesola, as a fresh governor, has shown that he is a serious-minded person. For the first time, the education policy of Ogbeni Aregbesola remains the best in the country, even ahead that of Lagos State.” In the new statement by Chukwumerije, it stated that: “Two years ago when the Senate Committee on Education visited Osun State as part of its oversight functions, I had cause to commend the education policies of Rauf Aregbesola. Over 700 days down the line, a lot of water has passed under the bridge with many insisting that those policies were merely on paper.
“In addition, stakeholders in the State, especially parents, proprietors, and school managers have inundated the Committee with tell-tales of woes in schools in the State, adding that the waters that have passed under the bridge in two years have been muddied. They cited as an example the questionable N8 billion “Opon Imo” project. This has also been confirmed by political opponents of the governor in their public comments. When good policies are darkened the way that project was, then change is a must.”
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