• The man who escaped death four times, worked as Minister for six years without collecting salary, sold all he had to establish his dream varsityA flashback into the little beginning of the Olori Omo Oba Owu of Owu Kingdom, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prince Bola Ajibola, became necessary when he was celebrated on his 85th birthday in a prayer session held at his Olusegun Obasanjo Hilltop GRA, Abeokuta home.
Founder’s Day at Crescent University Abeokuta had been dedicated by the university’s Senate and Governing Council as a yearly event to mark the birthday of the institution’s proprietor, who is the longest serving Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation. “What needs continuous mention about the man who, despite the campaigns of calumny by his own people at home and in the community of lawyers where he belonged, emerged in a globally participated election at the United Nations as a Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, however, is the story of his ‘Golden Nights’ and how he had survived death four times just because he had to brush aside his royalty status to struggle to have a handshake with a successful future that is being...
In a tribute on his 84th birthday, a writer had said: “Do I need to mention when he had actually wanted to pass on and he let on his gas cylinder to let loose its content while sleeping in a locked up room? That was precisely one of the four experiences he had with death. But why would Abdul-Jabbar Bolasodun Adesumbo Ajibola want to be taken away by the content of a gas cylinder? That is a story for another day.
Ajibola has for, close to a decade, been producing graduates, not as ‘brilliant beasts’ but proudly nurtured in moral and academic excellence. That is what Crescent University Abeokuta, considered to be “the peak of my life achievements”, according to Bola Ajibola, has done in its 14 years of existence as a Nigeria’s leading private university.
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