The Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Asiwaju Seun Fakorede has charged students to channel a fresh path towards politics, urging them to understand that election is not a do or die affair.
The commissioner said this on Thursday, June 24, 2021 at the Great Hall, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso in honour of the invitation of the University management to discuss the objectives of Students’ Union in Universities.
The University management organised the programme as a leadership seminar to enlighten students as regards the role expected to be played by the students’ body.
While delivering his lecture, the Commissioner noted that “the time is here and students must set to work without allowing anybody to run you down.” He said, “a leader is a leader. You don’t act your age but the responsibility.” The Commissioner also noted the importance of including youths in governance, one objective he said “the Students’ Union serve in the larger community, beyond University walls.”
Fakorede maintained that students must understand that education is important in this dispensation as it will prepare them for the task ahead because, “this generation is that of performance and result.” He also thanked the Governor of the State for maintaining the stance that every Commissioner for Youth and Sports coming in will be less than 30years of age.
The Commissioner, who later joined the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Students’ Union, Olamide Anthony Olabiyi to commission the Freedom Shed constructed by their administration, appreciate the thoughtfulness of the leadership of the caretaker committee. In his words, he said, “no one could have queried you if you had not done it. If you could be faithful to this little, it shows that you’d have performed better if you were to be given a bigger platform. This is a good representation of the youths.”
While commissioning the Shed and the pulpits which are to be distributed across lecture halls, the Commissioner expressed his happiness on the honour to commission the project on behalf of the committee to the greater populace of LAUTECH students.
The Commissioner however rounded his journey off with a visit to the Soun Township Stadium which is being remodelled by the State Government where he reiterated the commitment of the Engr. Seyi Makinde-led administration towards sports and youths development in the State.
