In the WAEC performing index data published by a data firm, StatiSense, Enugu State came first in the ranking of the pass rate among public secondary schools that wrote the examination across the country, recording 93.9 per cent.
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the All Progressives Congress-led government as the state came last, ranking 36th in the West African Examination Council, WAEC performance index recently.
In the WAEC performing index data published by a data firm, StatiSense, Enugu State came first in the ranking of the pass rate among public secondary schools that wrote the examination across the country, recording 93.9 per cent.
Meanwhile, Osun State ranked 36th among all other 36 states, including FCT thereby becoming the worst performed state in the WAEC examination.
However, reacting on Wednesday on the abysmal performance of the state in the examination, the PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, asked Governor Gboyega Oyetola-led government to apologise to the people of Osun State.
Akindele, who described the result as shameful and distasteful, noted that it was a product of the laissez-faire attitude of APC-led administration to education in the state.
He accused the Oyetola government of leaving the all-important sector in the hands of do-nothing propagandists, while the proverbial future leaders are having their future inadvertently fogged up.
The PDP party chair stated, “For long, the state government had rebuffed all wise counsels to employ competent professionals to fill existing vacancies in key subjects in almost all Public Secondary Schools in the state, in a bid to avert the present disaster.
“What more, Oyetola is happy expending parts of the funds expected to be used to revamp the badly bleeding education sector in the state on illegal local government elections that will surely fall flat. These are streams of misplaced priorities for which innocent students are being made to suffer heartaches and bleak futures through faulty education."
He promised that the PDP government under the Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, would transform education in the state, adding that parents, whose wards had been subjected to psychological trauma with the unsavory performance in WAEC and other basic examinations would have better days ahead.
“Senator Ademola Adeleke’s administration, as promised during electioneering, will set education as topmost priority by restoring sanity to the sector, away from personal aggrandizement,” he added.