Alumni urge Makinde to make U-turn on renaming Ibadan poly after Olunloyo

Dilapidated college students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan (TPI), under the aegis of The Polytechnic Alumni Affiliation, wrote to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo Suppose on Wednesday, urging him to rescind his decision to rename their institution as Omololu Olunloyo Polytechnic, Ibadan.

It would possibly perhaps maybe be recalled that Makinde final week announced the renaming of the polytechnic as Omololu Olunloyo Polytechnic. Olunloyo was the primary Ibadan particular person to serve as the governor of outdated Oyo Suppose. He served between October and December 1983.

Reacting to the choice, the Performing Nationwide President of the alumni, Prof. Akinloye Lawal, appealed to Makinde now to now not kill the logo equity of the polytechnic.

The letter read in parts: ”We implore Your Excellency to thrill acquire one thing new within or out of doors The Polytechnic, Ibadan, to call after Dr Omololu Olunloyo as this one will downgrade the arena of this institution of global repute that is extremely expensive to the hearts of most of us who had the opportunity to passed thru it.

”Nigerians appealed to then President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his decision to rename the University of Lagos after the leisurely Bashorun MKO Abiola, and he listened. Ibadan participants appealed to light President Muhammadu Buhari to provide an Ibadan man the opportunity to be the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan after 73 years of its existence on our land; he agreed.

”We, the Nationwide Govt Council of The Polytechnic Alumni Affiliation, on behalf of all past and as much as the moment college students of this mountainous institution, charm to Your Excellency to thrill have confidence a rethink on the difficulty of this change of name. This would possibly, subsequently, now not be one thing new if, for your exalted region, you spend into story the broader and lengthy-term implications of the name change.

”Agreeable purchase, sir, that after the name of the infamous Ibadan Boys’ High College was to be modified to Timothy Oyesina Boys’ High College, it was the Passe Students’ Affiliation under the revered Chief Bode Amoo that appealed to the authorities now to now not tamper with the logo name. The authorities obliged and named a hall after the actual person. The authorities misplaced nothing by this gesture. We charm to Your Excellency to treat the difficulty of TPI within the identical formulation. This kind gesture will now not diminish Your Excellency nor that of your administration. Agreeable hearken to our passionate and clarion call.”