Kwara State Government has named the state university after
the late strongman of Kwara politics, Olusola Saraki.
Ahmed, who declared that the Kwara State University, KWASU,
would henceforth be called Sola Saraki University, explained that renaming the
university was a better way of immortalising the late politician.
He said the late Waziri of Ilorin, had immense love for
education as evident in his contributions to the building of several primary
and secondary schools across the state.
The governor called on individuals and corporate bodies to
invest in education as a way of securing the future of the children and donated
N15 million for the takeoff of the foundation.
Sola Saraki was the father of Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s
Senate president. He was born on May 13, 1933 in Ilorin, Kwara State, he was
until his death regarded as the “strongman of Kwara politics”. He first ran in
the 1964 parliamentary election for Ilorin as an independent candidate, but
lost.
After the election, he returned to medical practice in
Lagos, only returning to party-politics in 1978/79.
In 1977, Mr. Saraki was elected as a member of the
Constituent Assembly that produced the 1979 constitution.
Sakari died on Wednesday 14th November 2012 in Lagos at the
age of 79 after a battle with cancer.
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