Oyo School Principals ready for a showdown with Gov Makinde. Say No Grant, No Exams.

Principals of Public Secondary schools in Oyo state are poised for a showdown with Gov Seyi Makinde over his refusal to pay running costs for two consecutive sessions.

A very reliable source had hinted that the leadership of the Principals had given directive to its members not to commence the first term examinations in the various Secondary Schools until the governor releases running costs for schools.

According to the source, “We had suffered for too long tolerating this government by trying in our own way to cover up so many inadequacies in our schools. Yet, the governor goes to town to blackmail us that he refused to release grants because we could not account for the ones he had released. We want the governor to come out with the list of those culprits among us. We are tired of these lies and unfair generalization..

“Since the governor came on board, he had released grants for only three terms, a session out of three sessions. Our members have been very loyal to this government. Yet, what we get in return is character assassination. The governor in an attempt to cover up his failure had at different fora accused school principals wrongly.

Henceforth, we are not going to cover up anything. The governor should prepare to fund his free education policy. So many things are going wrong in the school system that we are covering up. Unfortunately,the seeds of those inadequacies have begun to germinate with the last WAEC rating as an example. We are the ones being accused of incompetence”, he submitted.