Why Ndigbo Will Reject Buhari, Igbo Youths Insist
Ondo state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has bagged the National Association of Nigerian Students Icon Award.
The governor was presented with the award at the weekend as part of the activities marking the unveiling of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba’s Senate Building. The award was at the instance of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D South-west Nigeria.
At the unveiling cum award presentation, Mimiko promised that his administration would not relent in moving the State to the next level of sustainable development in all sectors, stress- ing that the provision of quality education for the citizenry assumes a matter of great concern for the administration within the context of the socio-economic environment.
According to Mimiko, the construction of the four -winged, five storey complex Senate Building located on 12 hectares of land commenced on March 7, 2012, and was wholly funded by the Ondo State Government.
He identified infrastructural decay as a major challenge confronting tertiary and other institutions across the country, noting that his administration has continued to tackle this challenge in all the state-owned institutions.
He expressed delight that the huge investment of his administration in tertiary education has continued to yield result and attracted recognition from within and outside the country as the United States Transparency International Standards (USTIS) recently declared the Adekunle Ajasin University, AkungbaAkoko as the best State-owned university in Nigeria and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, was also adjudged the best State Polytechnic in Nigeria.
He added that all the courses of the State owned University of Science and technology Okitipupa had been accredited.
He noted that admission into the university in the last five years has been merit based as a law graduate of the university emerged the best law graduate in Nigeria this year, stressing the university has run an uninterrupted academic calendar in the last five years.
The unveiling of the Senate Building was done amidst encomium showered on the institution’s outgoing vice chancellor, Prof. Femi Mimiko and the immediate past chairman and members of the university’s governing council, headed by Barrister Dan Nwanyanwu for their vision and contributions to the transformation of the university. An Igbo youth group, the Ohanaeze Youth Movement for Justice and Development (OYMJD) has decaled that the high-level hatred demonstrated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhamadu Buhari against the Igbos over the years would cost him the people’s votes at the next month presidential election.
In a statement issued yesterday by the group and signed by Comrades Phillips IgwenemePresident and Uchenna AnihiruSecretary respectively, the group said its attention has been drawn to various posturing by the APC Presidential candidate which it said, tend to present him as a friend of the Igbos, adding however, that “we have allowed the gimmicks go on before now as we saw his posturing targeted at winning the hearts of members of his party before the Presidential primaries.”
The group said it was now constrained to sound a clear note of warning to Ndigbo worldwide that the man Buhari has never been a friend of the Igbos in deed and action over the years.