The immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Osun State, Mr Niyi Owolade, has disclosed that the Olagunsoye Oyinlola administration did not sign any agreement with Oyo State ceding Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) to Oyo State before it left government in November last year.Owolade, in a statement issued in Osogbo on Wednesday, said the claim by the present Oyo and Osun state governments that there was a signed agreement between Prince Oyinlola and Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala ceding LAUTECH to Oyo State was not true at all.He said what was signed by the two governors in October 2010 was the legal framework prepared by the National Universities Commission (NUC) Committee on LAUTECH and the Attorney-Generals of the two states for the special committee to work on the ownership crisis. Owolade said he was aware that Mr Rauf Aregbesola was given a copy of the legal framework by the NUC committee when he became governor last year. He added that Aregbesola ought to have sought for informationfrom those who know on the issue before making public comments as Prince Oyinlola did when the LAUTECH crisis broke out. Owolade wondered how people could claim that LAUTECH was ceded to Oyo State in October 2010 by Prince Oyinlola when it was public knowledge that as of November 2010 when Oyinlola left office, his administration had a case at the Supreme Court against the unilateral actions of Oyo State on LAUTECH. We say emphatically that there is no agreement between Oyo and Osun States ceding LAUTECH to Oyo state. What was signed by the two governors of Oyo and Osun States in October, 2010 was the legal frame work to be adopted by the committee set up by the National Universities Commission (NUC) on the ownership crisis rocking the institution.If the Oyinlola government had ceded LAUTECH to Oyo State in October 2010, it would not be at the Supreme Court in November 2010 contesting the illegality of the unilateral decisions of Oyo state on LAUTECH.We want to state that Prince Oyinlola, throughout his tenure, fought gallantly against any insults targeted at Osun state from all quarters. He is too patriotic, seasoned and committed to the cause of Osun State to chicken out of any battle for whatever belongs to the state as of right. We are happy that even Mr Aregbesola for the first time acknowledged this when he said that on LAUTECH matter, Prince Oyinlola stood courageously like a Prince, Owolade declared.As for Mr Aregbesolas claim that ALL actions taken by Prince Oyinlola as governor are a nullity, we dare him to go to court to enforce this his infantile claim. We wonder if Mr Aregbesola did not weigh the implication of what he said on his own legitimacy as governor of Osun State . Did he not know that he had by that statement nullified his own oath of office which qualified him to make all the noise he has been making as governor In case he does not understand what we are saying, we are calling his attention to the fact that he was sworn in by the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice George Olaniyi Ojo who WAS APPOINTED AND SWORN IN by Prince Oyinlola in 2010. So, if all Prince Oyinlolas actions are illegal and a nullity, then Mr Aregbesolas governorship is also a by product of that illegality by virtue of the person who administered the oath of office on him,Owolade said.
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