Ekiti students’ performance in public exams has improved by 60% —Commissioner

Performance of Ekiti State students in public examinations has improved by 60 per cent, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo, the state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, has said.

He said the students’ performance has moved up from 10 per cent to 70 per cent within the three years that the present administration assumed office.

He said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation newspapers, yesterday.

He lamented the deplorable state of education in the past, saying: ” The state that was acknowledged as the fountain of knowledge was becoming a fountain of ignorance before the present administration took over the government. Let me give you a graphic situation of things then. In West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) that is used as a standard measure for students, the pass rate of Ekiti students was 10per cent. The schools were not good for human learning and teaching.

“We have done well in the area of education by making sure that the students learn under a conducive atmosphere. We pioneered a computer per student. We gave laptops powered by solar energy because of power situation in the country. We also gave laptops to teachers because they were the ones that would teach them.

“We have already started getting results in the sector. Within a space of three years, the pass rate in the last WASSCE results that were released moved up from 10 per cent to 70 per cent. The best student in the Senior Secondary School Competition held in Makurdi came from Ekiti State. The student was from a rural school in Efon Alaaye and not an elite school.”

He added that the Fayemi government has also improved the infrastructure which was abandoned by previous administrations.

He said: “If you look at the area of infrastructure which was totally lacking before we came to office, you will agree that this administration has performed creditably well. As at 2010, the roads in Ado Ekiti were horrible, and people kept asking if there was a government in the state. Within three years, we have been able to transform Ado Ekiti, and people have been wondering how we did it. I do not know of any major road in Ado Ekiti that is not a beauty to behold today.

“We have also rehabilitated Federal Government roads in the state. We can’t wait for the Federal Government forever to have the roads repaired. They have about N8billion to reimburse us for the expenses we incurred rehabilitating the roads. As I speak, the Federal Government is not doing anything in the state. They have neglected the state in everything.”

He hinted that the state has embarked on mechanized farming that would encourage the youths to take to agriculture.

“We have identified the northern senatorial district of the state as a veritable zone for agriculture that can feed the substantial part of the population of the South West. We are driving the agenda and we can see it becoming a model in the country. We are going to irrigate all the land in the area such that all year round, you will be able to cultivate crops. We have partnership arrangement now with the Israelis. Of course, you know their reputation in the areas of agriculture and irrigation. Good enough, this area has two main dams that have been lying fallow for a very long time. We are going to use that water now for massive irrigation to make sure that the area is noted for agriculture in the country,” he said.

On the face-off between the Honourable Opeyemi Bamidele and the state governor, he said: “The crisis is not what cannot be resolved. We believe that he is still a member of our party. He has not left. He has his ambition, but he needs to be very careful pursuing it. If you pursue any ambition with a kind of blindness, you will probably not be able to see the future.

“We believe with the way he is pursuing it, he may not at the end of the day be able to run in the APC as it were because everybody has already endorsed the governor. We believe that he would probably at the end of the day have a rethink and retrace his step. It is going to be a daunting task for him to want to pursue this ambition to a logical conclusion.

“He dismissed threats by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they would take over the government house in 2014.

“It is very funny to hear such threat from the PDP. What do you expect from them? They have not been able to say what they would do for the state that the Fayemi government has not done. You can see and feel what we have done.

“Good things are happening in Ekiti. What is happening in the state is like seeing tomorrow happen in your life time. We have done quite a lot in transforming our state. Why we want to do a second term is because of the neglect of the past. We have quite a lot to still do.

“I use Lagos State as a good example. If today, Lagos State is what it is, it is because of continuity. When you have somebody that is delivering, you support him. You don’t change a winning team. This is the message we have been passing to all our compatriots in the state. If this kind of continuity can transform Lagos State, let us see how it works in Ekiti State. We really need the support of everybody.”

Sources: The Nation
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