Asiwaju Bola Tinubu becomes LAUTECH Chancellor

IBADAN—The governments of Oyo and Osun states, Tuesday, appointed former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso.

LAUTECH, jointly owned by the two state governments, was established by the old Oyo State in 1988.

A statement in Ibadan, by Dr. Festus Adedayo, Special Adviser to Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Media, said the choice of Tinubu, a financial expert, accountant and administrator, was arrived at after extensive deliberations between the governments of the two owner-states.

He said Tinubu is expected to bring his administrative ingenuity and vast experience in public management to bear on the running of the institution and reposition it to meet the standard of its peers all over the world.