A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State, Harsanu Yunusa Guyaba, has rated the State Governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar’s performance in the education sector as low.

Harsanu Guyaba said in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi Sunday, that the Governor has performed below the expectations of the people of the state saying, “We were expecting a total overhaul of the education sector, considering the dilapidation of many schools across the state”.

He lamented that “But the reverse is the case with Governor Mohammed Abubakar-led administration, which has performed below expectations” regretting that none of the existing 218 secondary schools in the state had received government’s attention in the last three years of the administration.

“None has been renovated or upgraded since the governor assumed office,” he said, adding that “we are indigenes and we know the state inside out. Take a trip from Bauchi to Kirfi, Darazo, Misau Azare, Shira, Zaki, Ningi, Warji and Toro, what you see are sorry sights of dilapidated school buildings”, he alleged.

The APC Chieftain added that “There are no teaching and learning materials or welfare packages to motivate the teachers and students. The state of infrastructure is nothing to write home about; most buildings are in the state of disrepair”.

He further said that ‎”The whole environment is unconducive for teaching and learning, especially as pupils sit under the trees to take lessons. We expect that the people would be circumspect to vote for an education-friendly governorship candidate in 2019.”

Harsanu Guyaba also said that the state needed an administrator that would overhaul the education sector and introduce modern learning facilities in addition to building a dedicated workforce.

‎He noted that although he belonged to APC, it would not stop him from saying the truth about the administration as a critical stakeholder just as he faulted Governor Mohammed Abubakar’s pronouncement of some of his achievement on foreign media.

“The achievements mentioned are not realistic of what was said on education, Yankari‎ Games Reserve and many others,” he said

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But in a quick reaction, the Governor’s Special Adviser on Education and Public Enlightenment, Comrade Sabo Mohammed, said that at inception, the administration declared a ‘state of emergency’ in education with a view to overhauling the system.

‎”The Governor is determined to overhaul the sector and put education on the front burner. He is also committed toward providing human and material resources to meet up with the challenges of educating its citizenry”, he explained.

Sabo Mohammed also said that the government’s measures have brought great improvement on infrastructure and facilities in school claiming, “It has also provided the necessary materials and helped to restore the confidence of parents to bring back their children to public schools.”

‎The Governor’s aide said that the Governor believes that when the citizenry received functional education, there would be dynamic, robust and productive citizenry adding that the administration was addressing the issue of a sharp increase in students population in schools in urban and semi-urban areas of the state.

“The ministry of education provided over 10, 000 desks for schools in both the urban and semi-urban towns. It also organises capacity building for teachers in public schools in the state in areas of new pedagogy and methodology of teaching, classroom management, teacher-student relationship and effective school management”, he explained.

‎He, therefore, described the assertions of the APC chieftain as baseless and unfounded calling on him to endeavour to go round the state to see things for himself in order to have a fair assessment of the situation.

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