The party was reacting to the state government's response to ACN's earlier statement that the claims fall within the PDP government's "habitual falsehood" in its rabid attempts to grab public attention.

In the statement issued on Wednesday in Ilorin, the party's chairman, Kayode Olawepo, said: "We stand by our statement that the state should stop dragging the image of Kwarans in the mud by constantly dishing out lies.

"We urge the media and the public to read the Herald story specifically referenced in our statement to know who needs education between our party and the dishonest PDP chieftains in the Government House. The referenced paragraph in the Herald story, 'Kwara employs 1410 teachers', read: 'Governor Ahmed who disclosed that the state already had 25,000 teachers across primary school in the state said arrangement had been concluded on the approval of 181 projects across primary schools in the state.'

"Except misquoted by the Herald, its own media outfit, the governor had said Kwara has 25,000 teachers across 'primary schools.' Now the government is attempting a dubious swap of words by saying the state has 25,000 teachers across the 'basic schools' which it said includes primary and junior secondary schools. No mention of basic schools in the Herald story! Whilst the use of the words 'basic school' could accomodate primary and junior secondary school, 'primary school' cannot be used interchangeably to include junior secondary school. A honourable government should either have apologised for the slip or said it had been misquoted!

"Besides, we noticed that the government maintained a deafening silence on our challenge of its claim to have employed 1,410 teachers in the last one year. We leave the Kwara public as judge who the barefaced liars are between us and the PDP-led government."