We Regret Supporting Aregbesola In 2014–Students

Students of Osun state College of Education, OSCOED Ilesa, have expressed regret for supporting the victory of Governor Rauf Aregbesola in the last governorship election.

The students stated this at a press conference held at the correspondents’ chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Osogbo, the state capital of Osun.

Speaking, the Students’ Union Government, SUG president of OSCOED, Comrade Lateef Adams, said the students expected good treatment from Aregbesola because of the support they gave him during his electioneering campaign.

“We have paid out political and economic dues, enduring and supporting this government at all time when such are needed.

“We have done this because we believe that Ogbeni Aregbesola will replicate our supports by funding tertiary education, especially because his generation enjoyed better education at all levels, with public schools adequately funded with taxpayers money, and also because he had a rich historical antecedents with the students movement struggle when he’s still an undergraduate.

The students, who also expressed dissatisfaction about understaffing in the tertiary institutions, saying many departments have less than 3 permanent lectures in the institutions.

They however charged the governor to immediately come up with a development plan and embark on infrastructural development action plan that will ensure building of road networks, classrooms, among others.

“We demand that the government embark on immediate recruitment of staffs to meet up with the needs of the four owned-state institutions.

The students also charged Aregbesola to constitute a team statutory governing boards to monitor the institutions and design a long term monitoring plans.

“The government should come up with a public position on lingering issues as they affect LAUTECH and immediately reopen the campus by paying up the salaries of the workers,” they submitted.