Governor Oborevwori and the University of Governance, By Enewaridideke Ekanpou 

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou

Every university has a best graduating student identified in every convocation ceremony. In the University of Governance the Governor of Delta State, His Excellency Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has been identified as the best graduating student. This is purely based on his spectacular and superfragilisticexpialidocious performance in courses GLS 101 Infrastructural Development, GLS 102 Bursary and scholarship, GLS 103 Peace-building and Conflict Resolution, GLS 104 Pension and Gratuity Clearanc and other courses. These highlighted courses are the major courses which have marked Governor Oborevwori out as a prodigy of erudition. In the University of Governance this remarkable performance goes with an academic award that entitles the award-winning student to lecture in the University as long as he wishes until his retirement age arrives.

The fact that Governor Oborevwori is the best graduating student in the University of Governance demands celebration in Delta State. To achieve this in a university with a population of over 200 million students attests to Oborevwori’s academic commitment and genius. For me it is a pointer to a developmental transformation waiting for Deltans in cyclic spirals.

Matriculation of students at the University of Governance is strictly an annual ritual. Oborevwori was matriculated in 2023. Shortly after his matriculation with the required o’ level credentials that had ‘A’ (excellent) in the five key subjects demanded for his admission, petitions from some self-acclaimed aggrieved persons to the school authority sought the invalidation of Oborevwori’s admission on the ground that his papers were forged. The school authority immediately empanelled a committee of ten professors to investigate the matter. Before the ten-man committee could conclude their findings, it was emblazoned all over the media space that Oborevwori had been withdrawn from the University of Governance for falsification of admission credentials. The intensity of this withdrawal news was such that the committee was forced to publicly refute this propaganda as a deliberate plot of enemies to tarnish the image of the student.

In every home the propaganda of Oborevwori’s withdrawal from the University of Governance takes exaggerated dimensions that are rhetorically embellished despite the public denunciation and refutation of it by the ten-man committee. The mind of the public has been wrongly poisoned against Oborevwori. On account of this mind-poisoning the waiting public becomes intensely interested in the outcome of the committee. At last the report of the investigative committee was published upon a meticulous investigation.

The admission credentials of Oborevwori were found authentic and flawless. He was asked to pursue his beloved academic dream with vigour, insensitive to ‘laboured’ distractions. Based on the credentials before them, the committee was quite optimistic and categorical that Oborevwori had the needed intellectual bandwidth to accomplish his course of study without extension at the University of Governance. It was a jubilation galore for the core believers of Oborevwori when the report of the committee flooded the media space.

Another propaganda stormed the media space not too long after the admission credentials of Oborevwori had been validated and certified by the ten-man committee. For the masterminds of credentials-falsification propaganda, the report of the committee was a product of manipulation. For the masterminds and non-believers of Oborevwori, his subsequent performance in his chosen field of study from 100 level to 400 level would tell the true story of his admission credentials. In the eyes of the public Oborevwori was being watched and monitored from every corner of the world to see if his academic performance would be a matching reflection of his excellent admission credentials. With this
awaiting pressure he was further compelled to be more hardworking in his chosen field of study.

At the University of Governance the 100 level, 200 level and 300-level results are the most reliable determinant of a student’s projected performance at the time of graduation. Specifically, when the results of Oborevwori in 100, 200 and 300 levels were collated, he had excellent in GLS 101 Infrastructural Development, GLS 102 Bursary and Scholarship, GLS 103 Peace-building and Conflict Resolution, GLS 104 Pension and Gratuity Clearance. He also had excellent in GLS 105 Public Administration, GLS 106 Ethnic Harmony and Integration and GLS 106 Historiography and History of Ethnic Symmetry, which are electives from the departments of Political Science and Nigerian History. Over the years any student with excellent performance in these highlighted courses right from 100 level to 300 level is usually projected as the best graduating student in the University of Governance. By the age-long tradition of academic projection, Governor Oborevwori has become the best graduating student in the University. This is a development that deserves deafening applause from all Deltans.

In the history of the University of Governance no student has had an unbroken GPA of 5.000 from 100 level to 300 level without retreat by the smallest step in the yearly academic record but Oborevwori has just done it. By the projection and opinion polls of the university, Oborevwori is the best graduating student in 2026. The projected performance of Oborevwori in 2026 will never fall below his performance in the previous levels. Core demand of the best graduating student award is the retention of the student to teach in the university so that the school tap the academic resources of the awardee. However, the awardee is at liberty to turn down the retention demand if he or she does not like it.

It has come to stay as a general acknowledgement that Governor Oborevwori is the best graduating student in the University of Governance. The traditional demand of this honour is the retention of the awardee as a lecturer in the university. With the projected earth-shaking performance of Oborevwori in the University of Governance, he may be tempted by alluring offers from oil companies within and without, to leave the country in the pursuit of greener pastures. We are Deltans; as Deltans, let us entice Governor Oborevwori with irresistible incentives to remain in the University of Governance as a lecturer after graduation.

Oborevwori is a genius and geniuses are a rarity in every generation. Let all Deltans prayerfully appeal to Oborevwori to remain and irrigate the University of Governance with his widely acclaimed knowledge after his projected graduation in 2026. If we are lucky to retain Governor Oborevwori after his graduation, his genius shall be enjoyed in Delta State from now till 2031 since the University of Governance is located in Delta State.

Dear Governor Oborevwori, we know that you have activated an award to be given annually to the best graduating student in any of the universities in Delta state; however, we shall be glad to retain you as a lecturer in the University of Governance after your graduation in 2026 because we need you administratively as a prodigy of erudition from 2026 till 2031 – a time by which you must have produced proteges to walk on your surveyed path without distraction and deflection.

Dr. Ekanpou writes from Akparemogbene, Delta State