The Vice-Chancellor of the First Technical University, Tech, Professor Ayobami Salami, has revealed that he would be returning to the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, when he completes his term in May 2022.
Being an OAU staff before the appointment, the Ibadan-born academic, who is also an alumnus of the institution, was appointed to pioneer the tech university.
While featuring on a weekly radio show, Parrot Xtra/Ayekooto on radio anchored by Olayinka Agboola and broadcast live on Splash 105.5FM, Felele Ibadan, the university administrator said “I never applied for the job, I was invited and given the job, it was given to me on a platter of gold and I was asked to resume immediately”.
Revealing that the law guiding the establishment of the school does not permit for the extension of the tenure of the VC of a university, he also explained his tenure as Tech-U helmsman has been an eye opener and a rewarding venture with its own peculiar challenges.
Commenting on the new ranking recently released by the National University Commission, which rated the less than 10-year-old Tech-U, as the seventh best state university in Nigeria he said, “I felt very fulfilled and when my tenure ends on the eighth day of May, 2022, I will be very appreciative to God. When we came on board, there was skepticism on whether the university would survive but in our little way, we put certain things in place to ensure our survival and God helped us”.
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