DECENTRALIZE KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY FOR A VIRILE ETHNIC COHESION IN KOGI STATE
OPINION =BY LAWAL O JAMES.
The news of renaming Kogi state university after the late political heavyweight, Prince Abubakar Audu received the loudest and widest encomium across the state and party divide. The executive governor of Kogi state, his Excellency Alh Yahaya Bello in a broadcast today, 10th June, 2016 announced the renaming of the state university after Prince Abubakar Audu, who established the university in 1999 as a way of immortalising the late political ICON.
Though the decision was welcomed, and viewed as fulfilling the heart desire of the late politician whose original plan of the university was jettisoned by his successor Alh Idris Ibrahim, which he intend implementing when he assume office before death came calling.
On establishment of Kogi state university in 1999, late Prince Abubakar Audu, originally has decentralization of the university in the master plan. The Kogi state university main campus will be located at Anyigba, while School of Medicine and college of engineering located at Obangede in central and Kabba in the Western zone respectively. This well map out master plan could not see the light of it implementation before the regime of late Prince Abubakar Audu was truncated by the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in 2003.
The PDP government under the leadership of former governor Ibrahim Idris throw this master plan under his carpet throughout his tenure. Besides, a lot of anomalies in the good intension of late Prince Abubakar Audu, such as Mahmud Attah Senate building which Ibro government removed.
Today school of medicine has been established by the Wada administration and is located in the main campus at Anyigba, this singular act negate the original plan of the white paper establishing the university, I called on the state governor, Alh Yahaya Bello to quickly as a matter of importance complete the chain of immortalization by fulfilling the heart desire of late Prince Abubakar Audu.
I suggest that: