𝐎𝐲𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐈𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐚 - 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.....𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐍60𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.

The governor was said to have made the snide remark while on commiserative visit to the palace of Owa Obokun Adimula over the transition of Oba Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran, the paramount ruler of Ijesaland.

The governor, rather than devoting his energy to the assignment that took him to the palace, elected to play bitter politics and peculate the achievements recorded in the university by the defunct government.

While Mr Adeleke can be pardoned for his indiscretionary comment, given his poor and clumsy education, it is disheartening that the real graduates among the PDP chieftains in attendance could not caution the loquacious speaker who, for self-glorification, chose the solemn moment of the exit of the highly educated Kabiyesi to manipulate the immediate history of the profoundly sophisticated Ijesa people.

There is no doubting the fact that ex-Governor Adegboyega Oyetola bestowed to the Ijesa people a carefully planned university and an ambitious projec

t-in-progress. The history of the university is not complex, safe for the history revisionists who are bent on undermining the pivotal role played by the ex-governor.

state.

A university, hitherto bubbling with funding prospects from Ijesa entrepreneurs and professionals, is now a shadow of itself as the key stakeholders who pledged financial supports have distanced themselves from the dream project following the haphazard dissolution by Governor Adeleke of the maiden management team.

The university today relies heavily on exorbitant school fees for its funding. Students pay as much as N825, 000 as school fees in a session. Against the claim of the state governor at the Owa Adimula Palace that the university is adequately funded by the government, only N60million was added to revenue generated from the university in the first half of the year. Of the N1.31bn appropriated to the school in the Q1-Q2 of 2024, whooping N1.25bn, representing almost 100% of the expenditure, came from the university. So where comes the boast of the governor?

We challenge the current government in Osun to disclose to the public one capital project added to the project profile inherited from the Oyetola administration. We make bold to say that except projects fully funded by the APC federal government through TETFUND, the government of Adeleke has not added any ambitious infrastructure in Ilesa varsity that should warrant elephantine boast of the governor. Adeleke has exhausted half of his four-year tenure already without substantial things to show for it. He should use the remaining two years to work for the people of Osun, rather than calling himself what he is not.