The Accord Party has dismissed claims by the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) questioning Governor Ademola Adeleke’s commitment to teachers’ recruitment and welfare, describing the allegations as dishonest and ironic.
In a statement signed by Accord State Deputy Director Media Office James Bamgbose
According to the Accord, the APC’s criticism ignores what it described as the deliberate and structured approach of the Adeleke administration to education reforms, particularly in the recruitment of teachers.
Read the full statement
The Accord has noted with little surprise the latest outburst from the Osun APC, a party that appears permanently distressed by the steady dismantling of its false legacy and serial mismanagement of public education in Osun State.
It is instructive that a party whose entire educational footprint is defined by chaos, half salaries, politicised recruitment and abandoned classrooms now seeks relevance by questioning a government that has prioritised stability, dignity and planning in the education sector.
The APC’s claim that Governor Ademola Adeleke is insincere about teachers’ recruitment is not only dishonest, it is deeply ironic. This is the same party that hurriedly recruited teachers as an election stunt, failed to provide sustainable funding, and left the system bloated, disorganised and fiscally irresponsible. That reckless approach is precisely why the Adeleke administration chose order over impulse and reform over propaganda.
Unlike the APC, this government does not recruit teachers as a political kickback scheme or a media gimmick. Recruitment under Governor Adeleke is being approached with clear needs assessment, verified vacancies, sustainable wage planning and alignment with broader education reforms. Governance is not a raffle draw, and Osun State is not an experimental ground.
The APC’s obsession with an Executive Order they still do not understand only further exposes their intellectual laziness. What they labelled “vindictiveness” was in fact a necessary correction of an abuse of process carried out without budgetary discipline or institutional approval. The Adeleke administration chose legality and sustainability over illegality masked as compassion.
It is also amusing that the APC suddenly pretends to care about local government autonomy, a principle they violated for years while looting council funds with impunity. Their selective memory about Supreme Court pronouncements does not erase their long record of suffocating local governments and using councils as personal cash machines.
On finances, the APC’s confused arithmetic and contradictory figures betray either poor comprehension or deliberate deception. The truth remains that this administration has consistently met its obligations to workers, including teachers, despite inherited liabilities, revenue leakages, and structural sabotage left behind by the APC. Salaries are paid, welfare is protected, and dignity has been restored to public service.
The Osun APC should also be reminded that Commissioner for Information Kolapo Alimi owes them no obligation to dignify misinformation with silence. Correcting falsehood is not an insult to the people; it is a duty to them. What truly insults the intelligence of Osun people is the APC’s attempt to rewrite history while pretending amnesia about its own failures.
Osun people do not need lectures on education from a party that normalised half salaries, politicised recruitment, and crippled public schools. They are living witnesses to the difference between noise and governance, between desperation and direction.
Governor Ademola Adeleke remains fully committed to teachers’ welfare, structured recruitment, and long-term strengthening of the education sector. No amount of recycled rhetoric or electoral wishful thinking from a rejected party will alter that course.
The APC should worry less about August 2026 fantasies and more about explaining its past to Osun people, who are neither politically naive nor historically forgetful.
