Teachers Will Get Extra Benefits Under My Administration- Bayo Adelabu

Chief Bayo Adelabu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, has said that teachers in the state will be encouraged and motivated in order to make them happy to deliver quality teaching service if he becomes governor.

Adelabu revealed this and many more on his preparedness for the coming election while reeling out his mission and vision for Oyo State on a radio program recently in Ibadan.

'Penkelemesi', as he is widely called in the political circle, didn't only described education as one the sectors on his priority list out the 7 point Agenda, but also promised to renovated all the schools, both primary and secondary, across the state and even make education free at both levels.

“The platform for development of any nation is directly related to the literacy level and bilateral association of its populace. So, education is not something that must be taken with a light hand. So we are going to pay a lot of attention into education. Out of our 7 points Agenda, 3 are actually alleviated as priority sectors. Out of the three, education is one. And we want to attack it right from the basic and primary education, which I believe, and that is what happens all over the world, should be free. 

Government must invest in its people. A government that is governing literate populace is better off than a government that has large proportion of his populace as illiterates. We are going to embark on mass renovation of primary and secondary schools across the length and breadth of Oyo State. Because three things make delivery of quality education faster.

Number one is the physical structure, the equipment and syllabus, which must be made relevant to today’s standard of education, as it’s obtained all over the world. Another angle to it is the teaching personnel, because they have a major role in moulding the future of these children.

We can’t leave them unhappy, we can’t leave them unmotivated. Teachers should be entitled to additional bonus. They are dealing with the future of the state and that of the nation at large. We will introduce extra benefits that will make them better than the other civil servants. So that they can be happy and deliver teaching service the way it should be," he submitted.