The Government of Osun on Sunday asked Nigerians to dismiss claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the latest state-of-the-arts school, Osogbo Government High School, commissioned by President Muhammad Buhari last Thursday will be a “high fee paying” school, saying the PDP lacks the capacity to comprehend the strategy to make education quality in Osun catch up and surpass what any elite school in Nigeria offers.
The government, through the Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the Government, said the allegation from the PDP was no more than a case of sour grape arising from its frustrations on the marvelous performance of Ogbeni in the state of Osun. ” Did PDP not rule Nigeria for 16 years without any worthy legacy outside mindless corruption?” ” we should ask where in Nigeria stands a school of the standard of the schools in Osun to the credit of a PDP administration?” It is quite understandable their nervousness to the remarkable success of OGBENI who was their nemesis in 2014.
The Bureau’s statement, signed by its Director, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, asked Nigerians to demand from the PDP which insights it has into the workings of the Osun government’s various strategies to turn around the fortune of education in the state.
The Bureau noted that PDP’s claim could only be its own warped imagination arising from its anti-people orientation that whatever is good, modern, spectacular and qualitative is an exclusive preserve of the elite.
The Bureau’s statement said, “We are not like them. This is a case of sour grape on the part of the PDP that wants to disparage the great achievements of the governor.
“Aregbesola’s mission in education is to democratize it and bring it to the poorest who could possibly never have been opportune to be educated in such environment.”
The Bureau said so far, no fewer than 50 of its school projects are already open for use, demanding which one has been changed to high fee paying school.
“As at today, Osun has completed no fewer than 50 of such mega schools across the state that have already been put to use for well over four years by Osun pupils without the PDP’s imaginary “high fees”.
“Which one of the schools such as Anthony Udofia Elementary School, Salvation Army Government Middle School, , Ansar-ul-Deen Elementary School, Isale Osun, Osogbo or any other school has become a “high fee paying” school since their commissioning?” the Bureau demanded
It said that the Aregbesola administration’s refusal to be slowed down in its development agenda has remained a source of headache to the opposition, adding that none of the claims of the party against Aregbesola has been found to be reliable or true since the PDP embarked on its mission to destroy Osun.
“But we cannot be bogged down by the emptiness of PDP’s ideas and the hollowness of the party’s arguments. They said it openly that Buhari would not honour Osun people with his visit. Mr. President came and he was enthusiastically welcome by all the people of Osun. He was pleasantly surprised by the landmark and enviable achievements of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in the educational sector through his numerous interventionist initiatives,” the Bureau said
Stating that those who seek to diminish Aregbesola’s achievements are on a self-immolation mission, the Bureau said PDP’s inability to comprehend the Aregbesola program of changing the fortune of education in the state could only help to sink the party into the abyss of extinction.
“It is gratifying that Nigerians know the PDP for what it is: a lying and a dying party,” it added.
The Bureau said since the commissioning of the Osogbo Government High School on Thursday, there have been calls from far and near by parents who are under intense pressure from their children who desire to be enrolled in Osun schools. Nothing could be more of a confirmation that Osun has set a laudable example on how Nigerian children should be educated.
Concluding its statement, the Bureau said, “The PDP is disillusioned. When a party is disillusioned, it hallucinates and consequently becomes irrational, disoriented and crazy. This clearly explains the baseless criticism of Aregbesola’s historical and landmark achievements.
“The party is a rejected party that can never come back to life again in Nigeria. Its soul, to use the words of its former leader, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has left it long ago,” Okanlawon remarked.
