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#WhySeyiMakinde | Day 3: Oyo Since 2019, Reviewing Two Key Institutions 1. LAUTECH was jointly owned by Oyo and Osun States, and the shared ownership became neglect for about 8 years, funding disputes led to repeated strikes, some courses were running almost twice their prescribed length, and the university had gone six years without a convocation. Within 18 months, Governor Makinde’s administration negotiated sole ownership for Oyo. In April 2022, LAUTECH held its first convocation in six years, graduating 24,704 students from six academic sessions at once. It has held a convocation every year since, and an uninterrupted academic calendar. In the 2024 Times Higher Education rankings, LAUTECH was rated the best state-owned university in Nigeria. 2. Fasola was one of the state’s smallest farm settlements and had been moribund for years. Before taking office, Makinde obtained a court injunction to stop the outgoing government from drawing down a ₦7.6 billion agricultural facility in its final days. Once in office, he redirected the money from equipment purchases to shared farm infrastructure, created an agency to run the hub and completed the 65 km Moniya–Iseyin and 34.85 km Oyo–Iseyin roads to link it to markets. Within three years, Fasola had attracted about ₦20 billion in private investment and 16 agribusiness companies, and over 5,000 young people had been trained there. In 2025, the African Development Bank designated it Nigeria’s first agricultural transformation centre. Follow me to receive the daily updates. Use hashtag #WhySeyiMakinde in your quotes and replies.