Osun Varsity  VC Applauds Adeleke for 57 Office Units Complex

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

The Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Ayo Clement Adebooye, has extolled the state Governor and Visitor to the university, Senator Ademola Adeleke, for the completion of a two-storey building of 57 office units complex in its College of Health Sciences, Isale Osun in Osogbo.

The vice-chancellor expressed his gratitude at the third Distinguished Personality Lecture of the College of Law held at the College of Law, Ifetedo campus in honour of a retired Justice of the Court of Appeal, His Lordship, Justice Mojeed Adekunle Owoade, who doubled as the guest lecturer.

While delivering his keynote speech at the event, the vice-chancellor noted that the recently completed building had been left uncompleted and abandoned since 2011, and was the first project to be contributed by the Osun State Government in the university in the past 12 years.

He informed the audience that the completion of the office complex had solved the problem of insufficient office spaces for the academic units, which had hitherto posed a threat to the university losing its accreditation status from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for its MBBS and allied health programmes.

Addressing the governor, the vice-chancellor said: “I am proud to report that within the first one week of your assumption of leadership position in our state, I visited you and presented one of our immediate challenges to you. Sir, I presented to you a proposal for the completion of a two-storey building of 57 office units complex, which had been left uncompleted and abandoned since 2011, to house the academic units in our College of Health Sciences.  Distinguished audience, the Governor, His Excellency, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, approved my proposal by providing full funding for the completion of the building.

“Children of our children will forever be grateful to you, Your Excellency. By the grace of God Almighty, you will be inaugurating this project on Thursday next week. On behalf of all of us at UNIOSUN, I commend your courage and leadership prowess, and we do sincerely pray that the Good Lord will continue to bless you with divine wisdom to transform Osun State beyond imaginable levels.”

In his address, Governor Adeleke  spoke briefly on the theme of the lecture: ‘The Supreme Court of Nigeria and Recent Developments in Public Law’, and stated that there isn’t a perfect judicial system in the world, however, what makes the difference is the entrenched checks and balances.

He harped on the need to sustain due process in the Nigerian judiciary, noting that the Osun State Supreme Court judgement was a highpoint of the dividends of due process.

Also, in his address, the governor announced his verbal approval for the construction of the access road that leads to Osun State University’s College of Law, Ifetedo Campus.

While delivering his lecture on the theme, the guest lecturer took the audience over the constitutional powers of the Supreme Court, as contained in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, and ironed out the finer details in the dichotomy between pre-electoral and post-electoral litigation.

He also besought the public to be fair in their assessment of the judiciary and lawyers when electoral law is the subject of discourse, as the victor can become the vanquished due to its interpretation, which may seem unfair to the layman, but recognised by the law.