PDP Lambasts Basiru, 50% Public School Prone To Attacks And Other Trending News In Osun Today

Developments in the state on Friday covered politics, crime and education related issues. Our reporter, Kazeem Badmus reports that the following items shaped the discourse today on both local, mainstream and social media.

1: ‘You Are An Empty Parrot’, Osun PDP Lambast Basiru Ajibola

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, has described the defeated Osun Central Senatorial Candidate in the 2023 general elections and current National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Ajibola Basiru, as an ’empty Parrot’ who is still reeling from the shock of his rejection at the elections.

This was revealed in a press statement signed by the State Chairman of the ruling party, Hon. Sunday Bisi, and obtained by Osun Defender on Friday.

“Basiru’s statement overlooks the commendable progress and positive transformations in Osun State under Governor Adeleke’s administration after the good people of Osun emphatically discarded him and his useless tissues of political misfits, whose sole business was to loot and destroy the state,” Mr. Sunday’s terse statement read inter-alia.

He continued, “In sane climes, empty parrots like Basiru have no business in governance as all he dreams was to use political office as a tool of oppression and garrulous showoffs. That is why his assertions are often off-track, self-serving, and patently irrational.

2: 50% Public School Prone To Attacks In Osun – Report

No fewer than 50 per cent of the government secondary schools in Osun State do not have night security guards, thereby, making them vulnerable to attacks by hoodlums, OSUN DEFENDER exclusively gathered.

Findings by OSUN DEFENDER revealed that while some of the schools were facing infrastructural challenges, most of the buildings in the schools were old, dilapidated and without perimeter fencing.

Moreso, it was learnt that there had been a shortage of qualified teachers in secondary schools in Osun State, a development which affected the accreditation of schools for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and National Examination Council, as urban schools were found to be over-concentrated with teachers at the expense of rural schools.

These observations were contained in the 68-page “Report of Osun Education Summit 2023,” prepared by the state government in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, a copy obtained by OSUN DEFENDER yesterday.

3: Security Agents Foil Attempt To Kidnap Orisun Igbomina FM Chairman In Osun

Police operatives on Thursday foiled an attempt by hoodlums in Ila-Orangun town, Osun State to abduct the Chairman of Orisun Igbomina Broadcasting Network, Mr. Ayodele Agboola.

The incident, which occurred around 3:30 pm along Ajaba Road, saw security men attached to Ayodele Agboola prevent the assailants from using a motorcycle to block his convoy and possibly waylay the media entrepreneur.

The attackers fled the scene of the incident following the swift intervention of the mobile police officers.

Speaking with Osun Defender shortly after the attempted abduction, Agboola expressed shock over the occurrence while urging security agents to swiftly unravel its masterminds.