Oloyede: Bulldozer of a different kind


Odoma describe Oloyede as a bulldozer who focuses on a particular task and delivers it successfully. Every man fights, at least, a battle once in his life time. He either wins or loses. But African allegories are replete with great warriors who are famed for conquering all forces anytime they step out on the battlefield. They are venerated each time the call of duty beckons. And those determined to render honest leadership in Nigeria face a battle-like situation against retrogressive forces. The current Registrar of Joint Matriculation and Admissions Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede strikes like one such Nigerian-African. He does not belong to the clan of the traditional sword brandishers, but to the ilk of academic and administrative warriors. His missile never misses a target; he is conqueror and a bulldozer of a rare and extraordinary breed. He is a man who sets his mind and eyes on success anywhere fate has ordained him to serve, and he delivers accordingly. His admirers recall his inherited animosity with ASUU when he became the Vice Chancellor (VC), University of Ilorin (Uni-lorin). ASUU fruitlessly tried to prematurely terminate his tenure as VC for hardening to their voice the sacked UniIlorin ASUU members. No place has the current JAMB boss ever worked that the walls are not etched with his positive shadows in reforms, innovations and accomplishments. Thereafter, they resorted to witch-hunting and glaring attempts to frustrate the exercise of his academic prowess on university campuses in Nigeria. In further pursuit of this agenda, ASUU mounted a baseless, but stiff opposition against his appointment as JAMB Registrar and backed it up with the near criminal blackmail of the federal government to reverse it or face industrial action. And now, there have been mounting antagonisms by some stakeholders in the education sector against his determination to sanitize JAMB of exam malpractices and other irregularities to bestow credibility on the exam body. 

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