Pro-Chancellor Urges Students to Emulate Agagu 

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH),  Okitipupa, Ondo State, Prof. Akinbo Adesomoju has enjoined students of the institution to emulate the good legacies of the ex-Governor of Ondo State, late Dr. Olusegun Agagu as a decisive and impactful leader.

He said this recently at the unveiling of Agagu’s statue/Agagu Day lecture, organised by students’ union of the university at the main campus in Okitipupa.

According to him, Agagu made meaningful impact and touched lives of people across the length and breadth of the state because of his untainted vision of what he wanted to do.

The pro-chancellor stated that Agagu’s brilliance and background as a well groomed academic aided him to match his vision   with his solid plan and the development of a well articulated blueprint/working document for steady transformation of the state. He added Agagu’s determination to succeed, backed with extraordinary diligence and hard work translated into his impactful governance and rapid transformation of the state.

Adesomoju further noted that Agagu’s achievements were manifest in many of the massive developmental projects and programmes accomplished by his administration between May 2003 and February 2009.

He thanked the students for their thoughtfulness to honour Agagu with such wonderful programme, while charging them to contribute their quota towards the development of their alma mater by linking the university with influential, philanthropical and rich people in the society, and promised that they will be properly appreciated.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Temi Ologunorisa congratulated the students’ union president and his executives and the entire students for the programme. He said Agagu as an academic cum political icon, a first-class product of the University of Ibadan, a well trained global scholar by the best geology school in the world, University of Texas, Austin, USA, deserved such an iconic celebration.

He commended Agagu family and foundation for their unrelenting support for the university, especially for their contributions towards the timely completion of the vice-chancellor’s lodge and principal officers’ quarters and the recent donation of N25 million for the digitisation of the university library, also known as Akinbo Adesomoju Library.

The Students’ Union President, Matthew Ogunsoto stated that Agagu’s impact in Ondo State and the entire Nigeria cannot be over emphasised. He reiterated that leaders when given opportunity to lead or serve should give their best to the people. “We are celebrating late Gov. Agagu not because of who he was, but because of the indelible imprint he left that generations yet unborn will come to appreciate,” he said. 

He said the students of OAUSTECH will continue to remember Agagu for founding the university.