The state's opposition All Progressives Congress and the Osun State Government are at odds over the current teacher recruitment campaign.

In a statement, Dipo Eluwole, the State Commissioner for Education, stated that the choice to give appointment letters to particular teachers was not motivated by fear.

He clarified that the State Executive Council's policy decision to issue appointment letters was made last year and that the government did not take this action out of concern for potential backlash.

The public should be aware that this assertion is untrue, speculative, and purposefully deceptive.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the issuance of appointment letters is a policy-driven decision that emanated from the State Executive Council meeting held in December 2025, as earlier stated by the Governor. It forms part of a structured, phased implementation plan for teacher recruitment, designed to align with fiscal responsibility, due process, and sustainability of the education workforce.

“At no point did the Osun State Government act under pressure, panic, or threat of protest. The narrative being pushed is an attempt to politicise an administrative process and undermine a well-documented reform agenda in the education sector,” he said.

On the contrary, the APC’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, described the process as shoddy, faulting the government for failing to disclose the exact number of teachers it intends to recruit after three years of screening.

He particularly criticised the Commissioner for not stating how many teachers would be appointed to replace the 1,500 teachers sacked by Governor Ademola Adeleke’s Executive Order in November 2022.

His words, “There is nothing suggestive of the genuineness of Governor Adeleke to replace the 1,500 teachers recruited by his predecessor, which he maliciously sacked through vindictiveness by the introduction of the obnoxious Executive Order the second day he assumed office in 2022.

“How on earth would a state commissioner of information come on the air to defend the government policy on the recruitment of teachers without sufficiently arming himself on the number of teachers that his government is set to engage, if not that he was out to spew falsehood and subterfuge?

“How can a government predicate the inability of its administration to hire teachers on its failure to access local government funds when it is an undeniable statement of fact that the Supreme Court has settled the furore that the local government is an independent tier of government?

The Adeleke-led government's hasty announcement that it was prepared to hire the teachers who had been interviewed and examined more than two years ago was also depressing because it would have known the cost implications of the exercise before it was made public.

"How else could the term "kick-and-start" be applied to Osun State Governor Adeleke if it weren't for the current situation involving his haste to hire teachers—the exact number of whom he is unsure of—in order to thwart the determination of the reinstated APC local government chairmen to reabsorb the 1,500 teachers that the governor had fired in 2022?"