FAYEMI HONOURS OLAIYA, OAU’S BEST GRADUATING STUDENT AT CONVOCATION
Ekiti
State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Thursday praised Dr Aarinola
Olaiya, Obafemi Awolowo University’s Overall Best Graduating Student for
demonstrating the core values of hard work and excellence for which
Ekiti people are known.
The 24-year old Usin- Ekiti born graduate
of Medicine had distinctions in 11 courses, breaking 28 years’ old
record of the institution.
Governor Fayemi who attended the 43rd
Convocation ceremony of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Thursday
specifically to honour Aarinola, said she had shown that Ekiti is not a
state of stomach infrastructure but the country’s intellectual capital.
The Governor said Aarinola would be given all the support she desires in her quest for greater heights.
Dr
Fayemi said: “I want to pledge before this august audience and the
council, she hasn’t told me what she wants to do but whatever she tells
me, she can consider it done.
“If she wants to go into
housemanship, residency or even a PhD in medicine, we will support her.
It is very important to us that we restore the values for which we are
known in Ekiti.
“We are not a state of stomach infrastructure. We
are the centre of excellence in this country and when it comes to
intellectual capital, we really should restore our very first place and
that’s what the government in Ekiti is about.”
“It is about
promoting the knowledge economy and celebrating the very best of us who
have a lot to teach the rest of us because I know medicine is not a tea
party. For her to have impressed all of her lecturers and broke all of
the records here which excellent people have set here, I hope the
college will retain Aarinola. Having produced her, it is only fair to
let Ife have her, Fayemi said.
Signed
Yinka Oyebode
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
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