CEOAFRICA.Com gathered that the Former Senator Iyiola Omisore has described Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola as regressive and confusing over the merging of schools in the state.

The former senator from Osun East in the National Assembly said the action was a reflection of lack of administrative qualities.

He said this in Akure after paying condolence visit to Chief Olu Falae on the death of his son, Deji in a plane crash recently

According to him, the merger of schools “is unfortunate incident to still happen in this 21st century. “I believe that it is a sign of lack of content and lack of in-depth administrative qualities in the area of education’’.

“Now schools are being merged, schools of different cultures, different backgrounds, some are males only, some females only; they are now being merged under the guise of educational policy.

“I think that is a start of gangsterism, activism, I think the government is under siege; it is confused.” Saying boastfully that, “we are going to eject the young man out of the Government House in 2014 by God’s grace.

 While reacting to issue, the state government through the Director of Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon said it is sad that Senator Omisore is unaware of issues surrounding ownership of schools: “The structures that we met were so bad that we decided that we were not going to allow it. Some schools were beyond repairs and were evident reasons of the mass failure in public examinations.

“Even if we wanted to repair them, they were so bad that repairing them would amount to sheer waste of our scarce resources.

“The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, says there must not be more than 1,000 students in a school. Beyond that, the management of the school will be difficult.

“Conscious of this fact, we decided that we should build schools with all facilities for children’s development –mental, physical and psycho- motor, in a given place to give value to investment.

“Omisore’s incoherent, uncoordinated attack on the education reforms in Osun only demonstrates his penchant and those of his cohorts for the kind of educational standards that his party sustained in order to keep the bulk of our people totally relegated and weakened to be productive enough for the society adding that Omisore has certainly lost touch with his root as he seeks to fault his traditional ruler over his honest assessment of the current trend in education in Osun.