Hon. Ikengboju Gboluga, Member of House of Representatives, representing Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency and the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, has berated Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over what he described as a pseudo reduction in tuition fees of Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State.
In a statement by Oyeniyi Iwakun, his Media Aide on Friday, Gboluga described the reduction in fees payable by returning students of Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA) by Governor Akeredolu as laughable.
Starnews Nigeria had reported that Governor Akeredolu approved an increment in the tuition fees of the institution in his assumption of office in 2017, with explanation that the previous tuition could not provide quality education desired by the students.
This however generated controversies between the students body and the state government since the increment was done, with various political opponents latching on to it as a political tool against Akeredolu’s led administration.
But ahead of the governorship election on October 10, 2020, the governor who is now seeking a second term in office, suddenly reversed himself and considered a downward review of the fees with a slight cut.
But while reacting to the new development, Gboluga said the action of the governor has further exposed his insensitivity to the plight of the people he governs.
The full statement reads:
”The laughable decrease in fees payable by returning students of Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA), Akungba-Akoko is another inauspicious trick by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and his cronies in a desperate bid to cover up their obvious rejection and unpopularity amongst Ondo State’s masses.
”This clownish development further expose the governor’s insensitivity to the plight of the people he governs.
”Of course, Governor Akeredolu has now confirmed with his latest action that it was out of cruelty and gross inhumanity in the first instance to have increased the fees. Consequently, this pseudo reduction has rather angered people more than they could have been happy about it.
”Isn’t it now open to everybody that the idea of skyrocketed tuition fee introduced by Barrister Akeredolu moments after he came on board as Governor was an ill-conceived cum deliberate ploy to deprive the children of the downtrodden from accessing qualitative and affordable education?
”It is baffling that the reaction of the governor and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) to the promise by Barr. Eyitayo Jegede to reduce the tuition of schools and make education affordable in Ondo State is a failure to genuinely reverse the obnoxious fees and apologize for betraying the people. As his retirement to Ibadan in the next few months draws nigh, he has embarked on a dubious and manipulative means to perpetuate himself in office against the general consensus of the masses.
”Governor Akeredolu has to wake up, accept the reality and stop insulting our common intelligence. Ondo state citizens are cerebral and intelligent enough to know what is good for them and have settled for Eyitayo Jegede SAN and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for genuine transformation as this will surely reflect in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.”
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