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Since the assumption of office of Governor Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State has been witnessing steady improvement in the education sector, with the State coming from 26 per cent performance in the West African Examination Council examination in 2014, to 36.5 per cent in 2015 and 42 per cent in 2016, coming 11th in 2016 in the federation and second in the South West

Tijani, who led the placard carrying youth during a peaceful protest, told journalists that despite a conducive and peaceful working environment created by the people of the state since the inception of the defunct National Board for Education Measurement that transformed to NECO, the Federal Government has not considered appointing the chief executive of the council from the state.

According to Arisa: “For the avoidance of doubt, since the inception of our institution (NECO), there has been two Registrars/Chief Executive Officers to wit: Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde who was the pioneering registrar, from the South West region of Nigeria, and after serving out his full tenure, the outgoing Registrar Professor Okpala, from the South East region of Nigeria was thereafter appointed