BY GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO-Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has assured students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, that the two owner states of Oyo and Osun will soon issue a joint statement to end the crisis rocking the institution.
The governor gave the assurance yesterday while receiving students of LAUTECH on a peaceful protest to the state secretariat over the closure of the institution.
The deputy governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, who represented the governor, explained that discussions were on between the two governors to resolve the problems.
Governor Aregbesola promised that soon the lingering problems would be a thing of the past and implored the students to be law abiding while putting forward for their demands.
The governor who described as blatant lie the statement credited to the Vice Chancellor of LAUTECH that the institution had been taken over by Oyo State, declared that “LAUTECH belong to both Oyo and Osun state governments and nothing can change it.” He restated that the fees increased by the former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Alao Akala was null and void.
Earlier, the spokespersons of the students, Mr. Abiola Adejare and Mr. Oyewumi Opeyemi, appealed to Osun and Oyo state governors to consider their plights and resolve their differences to enable them write their examinations.
They told the governor that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, had given the final year students an ultimatum to graduate on or before June 10, 2011. The students added that by the end of June, the accreditation of LAUTECH would have lapsed.
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LAUTECH: Aregbesola assures students…says institution still belongs to Osun, Oyo States