Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has advised SERAP to follow due process in making request by making a formal letter of request to the governor instead of issuing ultimatum.

Onuesoke

SERAP, a non-governmental organisation had asked the governor of Delta State to disclose details of the budgetary allocations and actual spending by the government to provide access to free and quality primary school education between 2015 and 2019. The group had also given the governor a seven-day ultimatum to, upon which, appropriate legal actions would be instigated by SERAP.

Reacting to the demand and ultimatum, the chieftain described SERAP’s ultimatum and threat as giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it, disclosing that majority of Delta State public schools are in very good state compared to whatever exists anywhere in Nigeria.

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Onuesoke who agreed that the state of Okotiebor Primary School, Sapele, Delta State is totally unacceptable, however, argued that using that as yardstick to measure the standard of primary school infrastructure and educational quality in the state is a calculated attempt to rubbish Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who had been performing excellently well in the educational sector.

“Besides, it looks as if SERAP does not do a thorough investigation before embarking on its demand and threat. If it did, the group would have discovered that primary school management is funded directly from Abuja revenue allocation to the LGAs.

“Go and check your records, primary schools are under SUBEB management which are the responsibilities of the LGAs, while secondary schools are managed by PPEB which are funded by the state government.

“SERAP should summon the LGA chairmen in Delta state and indeed all other states for accountability. I thought they should wisely collapse their demand into the quest to restructure Nigeria so that the states should take over full management of their states and LGAs ,” he argued.