CANDIATES of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Labour Party LP, Senator Iyiola Omisore and Alhaji Fatai Akinbade respectively have faulted the Rauf Aregbesola administration re-classification education policy in the state.

The two candidates in their separate comments stated that the new policy has taken the state backward and counter productive to the advancement of education development in the state.

Specifically, Akinbade fingered the re-classification policy and lack of tangible plans for the state owned tertiary institutions by Aregbesola’s government as the basis for the dwindling fortunes of the state in the sector.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Iyiola Omisore

Spokesperson to the LP candidate, Mr. Kayode Oladeji, insisted that the state has not had it so bad, decrying equally, the strike action of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the  four tertiary institutions of the state which he said was caused by Aregbesola’s administration.

Oladeji said “the sector has been badly affected, so much muddled up: many schools built through communal efforts have been demolished, thereby leaving the pupils and their parents in such areas, in serious problems. The policy lacks focus and human face. All our tertiary institutions have been under lock and key since February this year due to the ineptitude and greed  of the administration. Teachers and students have been at home since then with Aregbesola turning deaf ears to their demands, yet he is spending billions of naira on frivolities.”

He, however, stated that “the situation really calls for concern. The lecturers are asking for their hard earned money which they contributed as allowed by the new Contributory Pension Scheme. This money runs into billions of Naira.”

“The money has been mismanaged and that is why the administration’s agents have been blowing all sorts of grammar instead of giving the lecturers their money.  Currently,our West African Examination Council(WEAC)result is at an all time low now. Our  state is now at the lowest rung when compared to what it used to be some years back”, he stated.

Promising to correct the problem already created by the policy, the former SSG said if voted into power, his administration would revert to the policy on education while the state tertiary institutions would be rejuvenated on all fronts towards making teaching and learning environment to be conducive for students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the institutions.

Similarly, Senator Omisore promised to restore the dignity of education if voted into power on August 9, 2014. Speaking at the interactive section with the state chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria at its secretariat in Owode, Ede, Omisore said education is accorded top priority in his 8 point agenda of his Rescue Mission.

According to him, the government of Aregbesola has caused so much confusion in the education sector that he will on assumption of office cause a paradigm shift in order to correct the anomaly.

While assuring CAN leaders that schools that were taken over would be returned to  the owners, he said it was wrong and unacceptable for pupils to wear the same uniform to school.

He added that such policies has bastardized education and made it difficult to identify unruly behavior among pupils.

On Opon Imo, Senator Omisore said the contradictions inherent in the tablet has caused serious setback to educational system of Osun state. “It is a tablet full of errors. It is unthinkable to study mathematics or other science subjects without drawings, but no single diagram in Opon Imo, this is unacceptable,” he said.

He, however, promised a peaceful co-existence between Christian and Muslim without any discrimination.

Earlier, the Chairman of CAN , Osun State, Rev. Elijah  Ogundiya said the interactive section became necessary in order to allow candidates of various political parties vying for the August 9 gubernatorial election unfold their manifestos before the people.