Teachers’ Recruitment: Process Stalls Four Months After Adeleke’s Directive

• As Govt Blames LG Allocation Seizure For Delay

FOUR months after Governor Ademola Adeleke ordered the immediate issuance of appointment letters to the newly recruited teachers in Osun, the process has stalled, raising doubts about his government’s commitment to education in the state.

Adeleke had given the directive at the State Executive Council Meeting held on Monday, March 10, 2025.

Four months down the line, the directive is yet to be implemented by the state Ministry of Education. 

OSUN DEFENDER reports that the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Gboyega Oyetola, recruited some teachers after losing his re-election to the incumbent Governor.

 However, the teachers were sacked by the present administration with Governor Adeleke announcing a new recruitment exercise.

More than two years after the sacking of the teachers employed by Oyetola, the present administration did not employ new teachers despite the shortage of teachers in Osun public schools.

 Recall that the Commissioner of Education in the state, Hon Dipo Eluwole during a radio programme in February 2023 disclosed that public schools in Osun need a lot of teachers, at least 10,000.

 However, Adeleke on February 16, 2024, approved the recruitment of 5,000 teachers and 250 education officers to serve in both primary and secondary schools, following the endorsement by the State Executive Council.

The applicants were required to pay a non-refundable application fee of N2,000.

It was gathered that of 32,000 applicants, only about 29,000 candidates were able to access the examination portal for the recruitment process.

The results of the examinations were published on April 17, 2024, and shortlisted candidates were interviewed between September 9 and 13 of the same year.

But since the interview, none of the successful candidates has been issued an appointment letter.

Meanwhile, some of the successful candidates have decried the delay in their employment after completing all the processes.

According to them, the government has remained silent on the process since they were interviewed between September 9 and 13, 2024.

Some of the candidates, who spoke with OSUN DEFENDER on condition of anonymity, accused the government of “playing politics with their life”.

 One of the applicants who resides in Iwo said, “The government has not said anything about the recruitment exercise since our interview. We have been on this matter for over a year and we don’t know the governor’s plan. This is disturbing.”

But reacting, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi blamed the delay on the crisis over the control of local government councils between the All Progressives Congress and the PDP-led government.

Alimi, however, denied that the Governor gave a directive for the immediate issuance of appointment letters to the candidates.

“The fact is that the Governor never gave a directive for the immediate release of appointment letters. When the issue of the recruitment exercise was concluded, the Osun local government allocation was seized by the federal government. For the information of the public, the salary of primary school teacher’s and middle schools are to be paid from the local government allocations. 

“If the issue of the allocation is not resolved the best thing is to put any recruitment process on hold. Since February, we have not collected local government allocation and we have been managing to pay salaries of all primary school teachers and all middle schools teacher’s and health workers.

 “We should give kudos to our government. Government is about planning. we don’t just do something that will lead to a crisis in the future. have to make sure that you allocate resources in a way that it saved” 

The commissioner, however, assured that the issue will be resolved as soon as the local government issues are resolved.

Yusuf Oketola

Yusuf Oketola is a trained journalist with over five years of experience in the media industry. He has worked for both print and online medium. He is a thorough-bred professional with an eye of hindsight on issues bothering on social justice, purposeful leadership, and a society where the leaders charge and work for the prosperity of the people.

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