Prof . Akinbo Adesomoju, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, has enjoined students of the university to emulate the good legacies of late Dr. Olusegun Agagu.
Adesomoju said Agagu, the state’s former governor who established OAUSTECH was a very decisive and impactful leader.
The erudite scholar gave the charge on Saturday while making remarks at the unveiling of Agagu’s statue and Agagu Day Lecture organised by Students’ Union of the university at the main campus of the institution in Okitipupa.
According to him, late governor Agagu was able to make meaningful impacts and touched lives of the people across the length and breadth of the state because he had a clear and an untainted vision of what he wanted to do.
“His vision was to transform Ondo State from poor agrarian cum civil servants state to an industrialised, self-dependent and highly developed economic hub in Nigeria and the West African sub-region,” he said.
He stated further that Agagu’s brilliance and background as a well-groomed academic aided him to match his vision with his solid plan and development of a well-articulated blueprint/working document tagged *Roadmap to Progress for steady transformation of the state”.
He added that his great determination to succeed, backed with extraordinary diligence and hardwork translated into his impactful governance and rapid transformation of Ondo State.
The OAUSTECH’s first Vice-Chancellor
stated 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.