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Governors' waec result

Published by Tribune on Sun, 25 May 2014


With his trademark cheeky smile and difficult-to-conceal burgeoning waist, Anambra immediate past governor, Peter Obi looked incongruous dancing Daddy Showkey's galala with Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fasola recently at the Silverbird Man-of-Year award they were jointly awarded. But he was not for sharing when it comes to topping performance chart in WAEC. For three consecutive years, his state under his leadership held tightly to the diadem. A week after the 2013 WAEC feat, his state was announced the best in 2013 NECO, with an indigene; Agbasi Praise Chinemeleum emerging the overall best in the examination. Fluke theorists on WAEC performance would just have to acknowledge his overwhelmingly under-hyped reforms in the education sector which to his credit did not put his state in debt that seventh generation might not be able to pay back. Apart from leaving his state in huge credit, many states, especially in the South-West are technically, debtors to his state. Is Obi, Nigeria's most unsung governance wizard'The mantra of education being at the heart of genuine development is now a national anthem. Even those making obscene monetary gains from having crude oil under their land acknowledge that human capital development, founded on education, is key to competing in the 21st century and public agreement is always expressive in support for huge allocation to education by states and opprobrium for the perceived under-funding of the sector by the federal government.WAEC examination has also come in as a gauge; mainly because it is transitional to a deeper cognitive development and a definite point of testing what each state is doing before the movement to an environment with minimal governance control (i.e university). This explains the reactions trailing the performance log. Because the performance log has a direct bearing on how each state has managed its educational policies, it becomes a kind of verdict on what is considered the most important objective of governance at the state level; human development. It is understandable why the Igbo nation is jubilating, after clinching the first and second position, (with Abia jumping from 4th to 2nd) and Enugu and Imo, coming 7th and 9th respectively. Four out of five states considered educationally-boggling, but commercially-progressive!Stories of miracle centres in the South East abound but until WAEC confirms that such alleged centres, hidden in erosion-created gullies in Anambra and elsewhere are responsible for the commendable performances, I will stay with President Goodluck Jonathan's celebration of Anambra as the brain-box of the nation!Would you say South-South states have justified the huge revenue from our commonwealth in the name of resource benefits, with Rivers in third position (with all the hype), Cross-River in fifth position (despite losing littoral state status,) Bayelsa in sixth position (despite alleged FG's secret special funding) and Delta in eighth position (despite Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan's showmanship and brinksmanship). However, before these ones are taking to the Golgotha, can we ask the whereabouts of the galala state in the zone and its showy governor'It is understandable if states in the North occupied the lowest rung of performance chart and Kaduna must take some credit for coming 12th, though states like Kano, Sokoto and Nasarawa which have engaged in loud celebrations of alleged accomplishments in the education sector should be asked for the verifiable gains of the reported billions of Naira, their governors claimed, had been injected into their compulsory and qualitative free education at primary and secondary levels. I had taken on Rabiu Kwakwanso of Kano and Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa over their controversial free education programmes which were obviously unsustainable, with Al-Makura's spokesperson, dropping blocks on my neck for daring to stay back in Lagos and write about their 'flying' state. Is his excellency's spokesperson still spoiling for war with this 'F9' result'Analysis South-West comes with pains, with only Lagos (is it truly a Yoruba state) among first ten, coming fourth, despite its huge allocation to education including the controversial $90 million world bank loan (about N14.4b) for which SERAP had dragged him to court over its refusal to account for the spending. In the suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos, Fashola is claiming he cannot bring the books out for scrutiny because the FOI Act on which SERAP built its case is a federal law which is not applicable in Lagos!Ogun came in 11th behind FCT, with Oyo and Ondo just hibernating on the list, but the most poignant is Osun (state of opon imo) in 23rd position and Ekiti (fountain of knowledge) in 34th position! I know South-West governors are not regionally-integrating on education but the most deafening endorsement has gone to the two states, with Osun being the more garlanded, by the likes of Professor Wole Soyinka who had thumbed Governor Rauf Aregbesola's controversial education policies.Readers would permit me not to go further on the two states' uninspiring performances for obvious reasons but I await eagerly the debate between PDP's Ayo Fayose and Govenor Kayode Fayemi over it. Maybe, the variables would be clearer.
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