UNIVERSITY HOSTS GOVERNORS’ FORUM SECRETARIAT

The Vice-Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Prof. N. Oluwafemi Mimiko, recently received at the University a team from the Governors’ Forum led by the Director, Mr. Asishan Bayo Okauru.

He described the approach adopted by the Governors’ Forum as one that can easily help our political leaders to find out how far they have gone in fulfilling their electioneering promises. He commended them for their peer review mechanism, which, he said, had already become “a key issue in determining the status of any university”.    

Prof. Mimiko further said that he supported what the governors were doing by way of coming together. “It is good for our democracy. The more of things like this that we have, the more  forums and the more opportunities we create for our elected leaders and those technocrats who service them, to interact and to engage, the better for the democratic process.  For me, there is no alternative to the democratic process and I think that is the way it should be” he added.

The Vice-Chancellor seized the occasion to enumerate some of his recent achievements, namely reviewing  and  making the school’s academic programmes more functional, hosting a round-table brainstorming session on entrepreneurship, facilitating training programmes for staff at home and abroad, landscaping and beautifying the institution, Launching a bus shuttle service within and outside the campus, commissioning of the student relaxation centre, introduction of a work-study scheme for indigent students, and the general improvement of existing facilities. “Our desire is to make Adekunle Ajasin University a producer of globally competitive graduates and a 21st Century University properly called” he affirmed.

Responding, the Director General of the Governor’s Forum Secretariat, Mr. Asishana Bayo Okauru, said the forum was non-partisan and the team he led was a delegation from the Secretariat of the Nigerian Governors' Forum. He said the team's mission was to undertake a peer review of the state in line with a decision taken by the 36 state governors to peer reviewing themselves. While in the state, the team would develop a comprehensive framework for reviewing it and would also showcase its past achievements as well as its future development plans.

He commended the Management of the University Institution for its vision, mission and achievements so far, and urged it to strive to do more to improve on existing facilities.