Prof. Mimiko-Led Administration Has Transformed AAUA – Host Community · We’ve Solved Infrastructure Challenge by Over 90 Per Cent

Prof. Mimiko-Led Administration Has Transformed AAUA – Host Community

·     We’ve Solved Infrastructure Challenge by Over 90 Per Cent

Akungba Akoko, the host community of Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, Nigeria, on Wednesday last week, lauded the Professor Femi Mimiko-led administration for transforming the University from a ‘glorified secondary school’ to a modern Ivory Tower.

Akungba  community leader and spokesperson, Chief Dele Olowogorioye, stated this when the delegation of the community led by the new Regent, Her Royal Highness, Princess Oluwatoyin Omosowon, paid a solidarity visit on the University Management. 

After the delegation had taken a tour of the University, Chief Olowogorioye said, “AAUA is no more a glorified secondary school that it used to be. Things have changed and now it is a University of the 21^st Century, properly called! This present administration led by Prof. Femi Mimiko, has transformed the University tremendously.

“It is indeed fantastic. The University is already a community on its own. The structures are there and all other things you can think of in a University are there. There is no doubt about it. It is what you can see with your eyes.”

Chief Olowogorioye, who had earlier hinted that the Community leaders were in the University on a solidarity visit and to tour the campus, said, “We are here to show our solidarity that the Akungba people are solidly behind the VC, the Management and the entire University Community.”

He appealed to the University Management to amicably address any issue relating to staff unions.

In his remark, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Femi Mimiko, expressed delight at the visit saying it demonstrated the level of love the community has for the University.

Prof. Mimiko also appreciated the Community for its hospitable disposition to the University Community, especially the students and pleaded that such gesture be improved upon and sustained.

He said the University has grown tremendously in the past 14 years, noting, “Four years ago, the major challenge we had was space. But today, I can say, with all sense of responsibility and modesty, more than 90 per cent of that space challenge has disappeared to the glory of God, and we are hoping that by this time next month, when our Senate Building shall have been delivered, the challenge of space would have completely become a thing of the past.”

He thanked the Governor Mimiko-led Ondo State government for being the architect of the University transformation, saying, “We have the government of Ondo state to thank. No matter how passionate you are as an administration, if you do not have the support of the proprietor, you probably will not be able to go too far.”

The VC assured that the University would do everything possible to sustain the peaceful co-existence among the Management, staff and students.

He said, “We are a family – staff and students. We (staff and students, unions and non-unionists) will bend over backward to ensure that we continue to remain in peace and to deliver the best quality of education that our people deserve.”

CAPTION:

AAUA VC, Prof. Femi Mimiko (7^th Left); DVC, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi (6^th Left); Rigistrar, Mr. Bamidele Olotu (5^th Left); and Librarian, Mr. William Akinfolarin (4^th Left), in a group photograph with delegation of Akungba community, led by the Regent, Her Royal Highness, Princess Oluwatoyin Omosowon (8^th Left), after a tour of the University… on Wednesday last week. Photo: IPPRU.