A youth group, the Progressive Youth League, has credited the immediate past administration in Ekiti State, headed by Dr, Kayode Fayemi, for the excellent performance of Ekiti State students in the Senior Secondary School examination results released by the National Examination Council.
According to the NECO Senior Secondary School examination result released on Friday, Ekiti State came top with 96.48 per cent among all the states in the federation.
It was followed by Edo State with 96.31 per cent.
The PYL said the excellent performance by the students, who were in JSS 1 when Fayemi commenced the various educational policies of his administration, has proved that sound educational policy and a conducive atmosphere for learning were sine qua non to good performance.
The PYL, in a statement by its South West Coordinator, Barrister Adeoye Aribasoye, said the excellent performance of the students had vindicated Fayemi as a visionary leader whose educational policies provided incentives for teachers, students and parents and laid a solid foundation for great performances in internal and external examinations.
Aribasoye, who lauded the free and compulsory educational policy of the Fayemi administration between 2010 and 2014, said the brilliant performance by the Ekiti State students in the examination has also proved sceptics of free education wrong.
The statement said: “It is reassuring to note that this brilliant results were achieved by students who were the pioneering students of the free and compulsory educational policy of the immediate past administration.”
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