PDP Publicity Secretary Gives Scholarships to 162 Indigent Students
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of the Caretaker Committee, led by Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye has empowered 162 indegenious students from his home town, Ise Ekiti, in Ise local, government of Ekiti State through his scholarship scheme.
Adedeye, who said he instituted the scholarship scheme in honour of his late father and Arinjale of Ise Ekiti, Oba Adeyeye Ogunsoye, who died 40 years ago said it has, always been his glowing desire to help children from poor
backgrounds in realizing their ambitions by way of getting higher degrees to make them competitive .
Speaking during the scholarship award ceremony held in the town on Thursday, where 40 students from various tertiary institutions received money to defray their tuition fees, Adeyeye disclosed that he quite appreciated the enormity of the burdens a child from a poverty-stricken home would have to pass through to go to tertiary institution , in spite of being born into royalty where some privileges are freely enjoyed.
The ex-Minister, who is the Chairman, Governing Council of the Ekiti State University(EKSU), said the beneficiaries will enjoy the scholarship from the levels they are until they graduate from their various institutions.
“A total of 162 students had benefited from this scheme. And this is not done on partisan basis , by association or family ties, because children of APC parents benefited from this. I particularly instructed the committee to use objective criteria to select the beneficiaries. I decided to give 40 students this year in honour of my father who died
40 years ago.
“My father married 27 wives and I am one of the youngest . Many of my father’s children didn’t go to school, so for me to have attended school shows that I was lucky and I have to give back to the society”.
A legal Icon, Aare Afe Babalola(SAN) and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, d chaired the occasion, lamented the decline in act of philanthropy in our society, commended the gesture, saying education is the most potent weapon that can be deployed against poverty that has become endemic in Nigeria.
