All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has berated the statement credited to the state chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Samuel Akosile, disowning the teachers who apologised to former Governor Kayode Fayemi in a live radio programme over their opposition to him during the June 21, 2014 governorship poll.
The party said the NUT boss is misrepresenting the interest of the teachers.
A statement by the state publicity secretary, Mr. Taiwo Olatubosun, described the statement as unfortunate if it was actually signed by Akosile.
“The statement does not represent the collective views of the teachers who celebrated Christmas in hunger compared to the pomp with which they celebrated previous Christmas under Governor Kayode Fayemi,” Olatubosun said.
He challenged Akosile to deny the various welfare packages for teachers during Fayemi’s administration, ranging from salary increment four times to promotion of teachers, which had been suspended by previous administrations.
“The Teachers Development Needs Assessment, TDNA, which Akosile said was meant to sack the teachers, was a ploy to deceive the public and paint Fayemi’s administration in bad light. The TDNA was to know their areas of strengths and weaknesses and then train them for professional proficiency and sound output,” Olatubosun explained.
The state chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Akosile, while reacting to Olatubosun’s statement, wondered how the APC spokesman, who is not a teacher, would know his members more than him.
“I wonder how he can claim to know Osho’s mother more than Osho himself. Our statement is the correct reflection of the feelings of our members and we stand by it. Once again, we say we have no regret voting against Dr Kayode Fayemi and his party in the last governorship election.
“If Hon. Taiwo Olatubosun is still in doubt, let him lead a team of his party members to some schools and see if they will not stone them. If he cannot do that, I challenge him to a public debate.
“We, as a union, do not want anybody to draw us into their dirty politics, but the truth must be told. The former APC administration failed teachers in the state and we had no choice other than to vote against them and we are not regretting that,” he said.
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