Adeola Bags FEDPOLY highest award, institutes N50m Endowment Fund for indigent students

…Gift N1m to best graduating student

…Pledges N500,000 for best graduating student yearly

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

The Senator representing Lagos West, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, has been awarded the highest honorary Fellowship of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State at the 20th convocation ceremony of the institution.

The prestigious fellowship award based on contributions to the Polytechnic and other tertiary institutions had only been awarded to three prominent Nigerians, namely former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Olu of Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland.

While receiving the award at the investiture ceremony, Senator Adeola announced an endowment fund of N50 million for indigent students on the basis of criteria to be worked out with the school authorities as well as a N1 million gift to the best graduating student, Adebayo Azeez Opeyemi and a yearly N500,000 prize for the best graduating student.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance who stated that the award must have been informed by his sponsorship of a bill to transform the polytechnic into a federal university of technology as well as the construction of a library among other facilitations for the infrastructure development of the institution, promised continuous assistance to the school.

And in a statement by Chief Kayode Odunaro, his Media Adviser, Senator Adeola also pledged to work assiduously to get presidential assent to the passed bill as well as facilitate road construction and power supply in the school and its host community, Ilaro where many of the students resides.

According to him, in the nearest future, the school being the only major federal institution in the area as well as Ogun West will witness positive changes through his efforts and facilitations.

Earlier in his convocation speech, the rector Mr. Olusegun Aluko acknowledged the senator’s deep love and understanding for the institution and its students in various material ways as epitomized by his sponsorship of a bill for the institution as well as facilitating the construction of a library for the school.

Dignitaries present at the occasion witnessed by thousands of supporters of Senator Adeola include Senator Isa Jubrin (APC, Kogi East), Senator Adelere Oriolowo (APC, Osun West), Senator Yakubu Oseni (APC, Kogi Central), Hon. Babatunde Adejare (APC, Agege Federal Constituency), Hon. Babatunde Hunpe (APC, Badagry Federal Constituency), Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, Oba Lokmon Kuoye, the Olu of Imasayi, Oba M.A Akindele ,the Olu of Owode-Yewa, Oba Buhari Makinde, the Oniwoye of Iwoye, Oba Kehinde Adeisa, Ogiyan of Alari among others.