Former Governor of Oyo State , Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja
The Accord Party Oyo State chapter on Monday warned that thousands of Oyo State students might lose university admission due to inability of the state government to effect payment of their WAEC fees.The party blamed the inability of some students to secure university admission on failure of the state government to pay their examination fees.
The party’s spokesman, Alhaji Lanre Latinwo, said in a statement in Ibadan that the failure of the state government to effect payment for last Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) fee might denied thousands of students’ results to pursue their admission into tertiary institutions across the country for the next academic session.
According to him, WAEC withheld results of students in public schools due to none payment of the stipulated fees to the examination body as promised by the state government."Only results of students from the private schools were released by the WAEC," he said.
He wondered why a government that prides itself as a welfairist/populist government would be jeopardizing the future of the younger generation by playing politics with their educational pursuits. It therefore called on the government to pay the SSCE fee to WAEC forthwith to prevent these students from losing the provisional admission as granted by the various
Tertiary institutions" he added.
Meanwhile, the Accord Party has described the purported allocation of stalls at Scout Camp to the displaced Molete/ Challenge traders as at sham.
The party noted that those affected were left out of allocation, while the distribution of stalls was aimed at the new owners who were members of the ACN at the rate of N100,000 annually and in turn sold to those displaced at inflated price of N800,000 annually.The cubicle stalls that was meant to accommodate a trader is now been given out to four persons at a rate of N200,000 per person.
The party however warned that Oyo State government would be tasking the patience of the traders too much with this inhuman act by the authority that supposes to protect and shield them from various forms of hardship