…as institution sets pace in 1st International Leadership Summit
The Acting Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dr Odedeji, has encouraged all Nigerian youths to embrace reorientation by imbibing right values for positive transformation.
He stated this during the launch of International Leadership Summit on “Value Transformation Roundtables,” organised by Project55 Africa in the Polytechnic.
Project55 Africa is a capacity development organisation based in the United States, which focuses on transformational leadership training.
A statement on Thursday by the institution’s Head of Public Relations and , Protocol Unit, Mr Yemi Ajibola, said Odedeji also described value transformation as essential panacea to societal and moral decadence, which confirms the summit as timely and relevant.
According to the MAPOLY Rector, “When your values are wrong, then you are pursuing wrong vision and wrong goals, then the destination becomes catastrophic.”
He said youths should key into the project for digital economy training and for financial breakthrough to escape the pains of poverty.
Earlier, while declaring the summit open, Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, called for right attitude and core values to achieve success among youths.
’If society were to be a better place of abode, youths must shun vices like cultism, ritual killing, drug abuse, examination malpractices, thuggery, kidnapping and others,’’ he said.
He admonished the youths to channel their strengths to positive attitudes and the right values for the betterment of our community rather than engaging in social vices.
While appreciating the initiative, the President of MAPOLY Alumni Association (MAPALUM), Mr. Ezekiel Obasanya, described the project as a realisation of the “Alumni of our Dreams.”
Obasanya said this would enable the Alumni members to be so much engrossed in the development of their Alma mater with passion and resilience.
He boasted that the participants and the institution, through Project55 Africa, would be a reference point in the transformation of Africa as a continent.
Meanwhile, the Founder of Project55 Africa, Mr. Ade Adeyemi, said the project is an initiative to create wealth and ensure financial transformation of Africans.
Adeyemi, who is also an Alumnus, hereby, launched the summit for the first time in Africa in the Polytechnic.
He promised to replicate the summit in all tertiary institutions nationally and continentally.
At the event, Global Motivational Guru, John. C. Maxwell, as well as Cory Kromray, a stock market professional, were among Project55 Africa international subscribers, who participated in the summit virtually.