Ajimobi in critical condition due to COVID-19, LAUTECH students react

Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, have reacted to the news of Abiola Ajimobi in critical condition due to COVID-19.

MyNigeria.com recalls an incident in 2017 which saw LAUTECH students take a protest to Ajimobi who was the governor of Oyo State at the time.

The student were clamouring for their school to be reopened after almost a year of being shut down due to the failure of government to fulfill its financial obligations to the school.

“You are here to protest, am I the one who locked your school?", Ajimobi queried the protesting students.

“Your school being locked for eight months is no big deal. Is your school the first to be locked? If this is how you will come to talk to me, go and do your worst, I dare you.

He continued: “Every government lacks funds; even we lack fund; if you want to be troublesome, go ahead, I am ready for you. You are coming here to say that it will be tough this time, tough with me.

"If someone of my calibre has come here to address you,you should have respect for constituted authority. Your school locked for eight months. Did I lock your school?”

The incident is still fresh in the minds of the students who have now expressed believe that the former governor's predicament with COVID-19 is as a result of his actions against them.

MyNigeria.com gathered some Twitter reactions from LAUTECH students who were asked to pray for Ajimobi to recover from COVID-19.

@christi32241726 wrote: "May he remain unconscious for as long as the number of months lautech was on strike".

@_Hugochukwu wrote: "Same Ajimobi that closed LAUTECH for how long and when the students protested he said “do your worse” You think God likes misplaced prayers?".

@Banjio_ wrote: "Don’t ever offend Lautech students, most of them have graduated but yet to forgive Ajimobi. They said we should pray for Ajimobi, one decided to pray for the virus instead. Another one said may God make it slow and painful".

@zilentwalker wrote: "As a LAUTECH student that witness his CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY. I'll rather sleep than pray for him... that's if I no curse am join sef".

@bobofafrica wrote: "May covid-19 do to him what he did to LAUTECH students and Oyo State pensioners".

@oOlaopa wrote: "@seyiamakinde I have just heard of a rumor that the former @OyoStateNigeria @AAAjimobi slipped into coma and was admitted in First Cardiology Hospital, Lagos. I pray it is not true. And if true, he should recover whole. I would have thought to admit him in LTH, Ogbomoso. The choice of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital would have been apt so that we all continue to reap the fruits of our labor here on earth before the judgment of God".

@geniusvinze wrote: "Someone looted the state dry. Fucked LAUTECH students up. Owed pensioners and teachers. Some died. And you are asking me to pray for Ajimobi".