Skip to main content

Osun Group Urges Makinde To Constitute Oyo 5-Man Committee On LAUTECH |OGBOMOSO INFO|





Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso under the auspices of Osun United Forum on Friday urged Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to constitute a 5-man committee that would work with their Osun counterpart over challenges confronting the institution.
The group also chided indigenes of Oyo working in LAUTECH for allegedly criticising Osun State governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola over his recent release of N472 to the university.
In a press statement signed by the leader of Osun United, Mr Oyetade Rotimi Williams, which was forwarded to  Tribune in Osogbo, the group recalled that the owner states (Osun and Oyo) met on the progress and sustainability of LAUTECH.
The statement reads “the two governors decided to put together, a ten-man committee (five from each state) to deliberate on the way forward. Governor Isiaka Oyetola promptly constituted a five-man committee to meet with Oyo State committee.”
“Further to this development, the Osun State government released a sum of N472m for payment of salaries. It is not disputable that LAUTECH Teaching Hospital located in Osogbo is the only recognized Teaching Hospital as stated in the edict that backs up the joint ownership of the university.”

“It is, therefore, very disheartening that a group that tagged themselves “Oyo Forum” discredited the progressive move from the Osun State government despite the visibly lopsidedness and inequalities that permeate the joint ownership of the university.”
“Their intent to discredit Osun State is malicious and an attempt to drag the university to a standstill. This obviously will be strongly resisted in no small terms by Osun indigenes who, over the years, have contributed immensely to the development and survival of the two campuses.”
LAUTECH is a jointly owned university and Osun State will never succumb to clandestine move to steal her assets which she had nurtured to maturity. No person or group can re-write the history of LAUTECH. The university is a heritage of the Yoruba race and no group can lay claim to it or attempt to hijack it.”
“Osun United Forum hereby calls upon the public to disregard the release by a group of people whose intent as revealed by their utterances is to disrupt the activities of the university. The release of fund recently made proved that Governor Oyetola is committed to LAUTECH.”
“Osun indigenes who are workers in LAUTECH humbly call on the governor of Oyo State to, without further delay, constitute the Oyo State committee that will meet with its Osun counterpart to deliberate on the progress and sustainability of LAUTECH”, the statement concluded.








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Akudaaya: Tinubu, Abacha and Shettima’s Theory of Ruthless Leadership | Festus Adedayo

  OPINION By Festus ADEDAYO In what seems to affirm that he wears controversies like apparel, vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), Kashim Shettima, leapt into yet another at the twilight of last week. On Thursday at the 96th-anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos state, Shettima was quoted to have said that Nigeria needed the “hospitality” of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s despotic military ruler; Nigeria’s own contribution to the list of infamous rulers who ruled the world with infernal ruthlessness. As the controversy over what he actually said raged, Shettima came out with a clarification: He actually said that in 2023, Nigeria needed a president who possessed “a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity”. Nigerians have since been engaged in dissecting what lay atop the mind of a man who could be the country’s vice president. “We need a leader with a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity of General Sani Abacha… Nice men do not ma...
Post a Comment
Read more

Oyo Speaker Meets Senate Leadership, Deliberates State Assembly, LG Autonomy |OGBOMOSO INFO|

The Speaker of the 9th Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin met the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan to deliberate issues around financial autonomy for States Assembly and local governments. The brief meeting which was held yesterday after a national legislative assignment in Abuja, it’s considered necessary to improve cooperation between the National Assembly (Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives) and the State legislative arm. According to Ogundoyin, the wide gap between the National and the State assembly needs to be bridged to ensure that the common interest of the people are genuinely and adequately represented. He noted that the local government and State Assembly are closer to the people, saying the financial autonomy is essential towards meeting grassroot needs and making the State lawmakers run their legislative duties without hindrances. He said, “The distinguished Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan is a stakeholder in the nation...
Post a Comment
Read more

LAUTECH: Solving One Problem But Creating Another |Adewuyi Adegbite

    By Adewuyi Adegbite The sole ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) by Oyo State is a welcome development. Joint ownership of the institution by Oyo and Osun states has culminated into protracted crises in the institution, which has had telling effects on the students, the staff and its rating as the best state university in Nigeria as well as the relationship between the owner states. Thus, the taking over of the institution by the Oyo State Government is applauded by all and sundry as a pragmatic way of engendering peace. However, the report credited to the Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde that the institution would be run as a multi-campus is sad news for all Ogbomoso indigenes as well as lovers of justice. I wish to advise the Oyo State Government to reconsider the idea in the interest of peaceful coexistence among the various zones of the state, which is homogenous. Numerically and population-wise, Ogbomoso geo-political zo...
Post a Comment
Read more