The League of Imams and Alfas in Ogun State, yesterday, rejected Governor Dapo Abiodun’s plan to return public schools to missionary bodies, describing the step as “ill-advised, provocative, and unjustifiable.”

Abiodun had last week disclosed his administration’s plan to return missionary schools in the state to their original owners as part of efforts to strengthen partnerships in the education sector.

The governor disclosed this on Friday while receiving the Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, Archbishop Michael Francis Crotty, during a courtesy visit at his office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

But a statement issued yesterday, Imam Tajudeen Mustafa Adewunmi, the Secretary General, League of Imams and Alfas, Ogun State, the body rejected the plan, describing it as affront to the principles of equity.

“This policy is not only a gross misreading of history but a dangerous affront to the principles of equity, justice, and religious balance in a plural society,” the body said.

According to the Imams, public schools in Ogun State were nationalised “to eliminate precisely the kind of sectarian control the government now seeks to reintroduce.”