JUST IN: Ajimobi Finally Breaks Silence On Tech-U Ownership

Oyo State outgoing Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has denounced the ownership of the first Technical University also known as Tech-U, Ibadan. 

Mouthpiece NG reports that the governor put to rest the controversy surrounding the ownership when traditional rulers paid him courtesy visit at his office on Monday. 
Ajimobi who only have less than few days to hand over to the governor- elect, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said the institution belonged to the state government and not any individual, including himself.
The governor made the clarification while receiving the state’s traditional rulers, drawn from the six zones of the state, led by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. 
The traditional rulers are Eleruwa of Eruwa, Oba Samuel Adegbola; Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba Abdul-Ganiy Salawudeen; Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, Oba Francis Olusola; and Balogun of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin.
Ajimobi said, “Let me use this opportunity to dispel the rumour going around that I’m the owner of The First Technical University, Ibadan. People are expected to talk, especially when they lack proper information, but if we fail to dispel the rumour, it may stick and become the truth.
“I want to say without any equivocation that I do not own the Technical University, Ibadan. It belongs to Oyo State Government wholly. It is easy for people to come up with such rumour because of the successful establishment of the university.
“It is the first of its kind in Nigeria, and we are happy that we succeeded in achieving this in our time. Nobody believed we could achieve it, especially during a period the country was grappling with economic challenges.
“Oyo State has had no financial input in the establishment of the university till date. All that you see there were done by lovers of the state, indigenes living abroad, international institutions and the CBN.”

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