We regret supporting Aregbesola – Osun 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 Osogbo, the state capital of Osun.
The Students’ Union Government, SUG president of OSCOED, Comrade Lateef Adams, said they were getting negative treatment from the Governor.
The students explained that they expected good treatment from Aregbesola because of the support they gave him during his electioneering campaign.
He said, “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, alleged that many departments have less than 3 permanent lectures in the institutions.
They however utged the governor to immediately come up with a development plan and embark on infrastructural development action plan that would 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,” he added.
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,” he said.
