How Ladoke Akintola University got sited at Ogbomoso

The story of how the Ladoke Akintola University of Science and technology got sited at Ogbomoso is quite revealing. It smacks of vendetta and shortsightedness.

Just like in the location of industry, the sighting of a school has to have a lot of considerations.

In the case of the University jointly owned by Oyo and Osun states, finding a sight for it was a no brainer  but several forces came to play with reasons why it should be in a place of their choice.

Abuja as the Capital of Nigeria came to be because of the desire to have a capital in a central part of Nigeria.

Resolving a location for Ladoke Akintola University came as a result of the fact that the Military were involved. Left to civilians it would have been challenging.

Ogbomoso got chosen because it was the home town of Samuel Ladoke Akintola. You may want to know why? Ogbomoso being the home town of Samuel Ladoke Akintola had no University and no Polytechnic. Ife  had a University and Ibadan had a University and a Polytechnic and Ogbomoso had neither a University nor a Polytechnic.

Nigeria had long longed to join the league of industrialized nations and one  of the seeming drawbacks is the lack of sufficient technical content in our Education. Of this is the desire for Universities of Science and Technology. This being the case it was desirous for political interests to want to have the University sited in their domain.

Late Samuel Ladoke Akintola

To the Glory of God and the joy of the Ogbomoso people, the argument that swayed the site in their favour was that they had been deliberately denied in the past to the point that denying them of the University was unjustifiable. The question is why where they denied in the past?