Former Oyo State Governor and the current gubernatorial candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said that his major regret was his inability to secure sole ownership for the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, which is presently being jointly owned by Oyo and Osun States.
Alao-Akala, who spoke yesterday on a private radio station in Ibadan, Oyo State capital and monitored by Sunday Telegraph, attributed the perennial problem of funding of the institution to the joint ownership, likening the status to that of a man married to two wives who cannot satisfy both equally.
He had made a move to sever the joint ownership, settling with Osun State government so that the university could be owned and run independently by Oyo State, but the processes could not be completed before he was defeated in 2007 by Ajimobi of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
He explained, “I had an agreement with the then governor of Osun state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. He signed and his Attorney General signed. I also signed and my Attorney General signed the agreement. However, the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi failed to implement the agreement. I have a copy of the agreement and I am ready to make it public anytime.
“If I am able to win the 2019 gubernatorial election, I strongly promise to carry out the final process and LAUTECH would be a University of its past dreams.
It would no longer be a case of Oyo State saying I have paid my own subvention; salaries are not paid because Osun has not paid its own”.
To ensure a smooth take-off of campuses of LAUTECH in Oyo State should the sole-ownership sail through then, Alao-Akala said he had put infrastructural arrangements in place at Igboora and Saki towns, promising that the series of administrative and industrial crises bedeviling the institution would be over once he is voted in as governor in 2019.
The strong man of Ogbomoso politics stressed that he would ensure that within the first 100 days of his being sworn in as Governor, he would ensure that the processes towards making LAUTECH solely owned and run by Oyo government would be completed.
Alao-Akala recently fell out with the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi which he defected to about two years ago. He had dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after he lost being chosen as the party’s standard bearer in 2015 and went to the Labour Party where he contested but lost to Ajimobi who clinched the unprecedented second term.
Travellers stranded as Delta LG Chair, Onoyake shutdown City
Travellers were on Saturday stranded in Delta State as the Uvwie Local Government Council Chairman, Hon. Ramsy Tega Onoyake, shutdown the whole towns in the Council area to compelled traders at the Effurun market and residents to clean up their environment, DAILY POST can report.
Hon. Onoyake warned the traders not to display their wares on major roads.
He stressed that he would seized the wares of the soldiers if he traders dared him.
Hon. Onoyake lamented that the traders littered the market environment with refuse and still come out during sanitation exercise to trade.
Hon. Onoyake also said that the attitude of the residents is very poor pointing out that some of them sat in their homes or go about the various communities while others trade on the median of the roads during sanitation hours.
Hon. Onoyake said a task force will be inaugurated to address the menace in the market saying, “Anyone who falls short of the law will be prosecuted.”
Hon. Onoyake also said a team is already at the Enerhen Junction to clear the area of dirt and to demolish illegal structures erected on top drains.
Hon. Onoyake appealed to the people of the area to always clean their environment in their own interests particularly for health reasons.
At the time of filing this report, Jakpa, Ekpan, PTI Road, Effurun/Sapele road and Effurun/Benin Road were completely shut down. https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2018/10/my-lautech-regret-alao-akala/