AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY OJEKUNLE, OLABISI SUNDAY THE PRESIDENT OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (EMSA), OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY; ON THE OCCASION OF THE SWEARING- IN INTO OFFICE, THIS DAY, 26TH JUNE, 2015.

The Head of Department, Dr. Olatoye Ojo, EMSA Staff advisers Dr. O.I Adegoke and Dr. T.T Oladokun, All Lecturers Present, all other Executives, SRC Members, and the members of judicial council for the 2014/2015 Session, Fellow Estate Management Students of all Levels, Ladies and Gentlemen;

Leadership is about service, and elected offices serve as an opportunity for diligent representation of the mandates and wills of the electorates. Today, we are gathered here to witness the baton to serve being passed to yet another set of student leaders in our dear association.

‘Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to successes – Stephan A. Brennan.

How well this administration will perform depends on how willing and submissive we (the students’ body) can be in partnering with the Staffs of the Estate Management Department and the entirety of our students
It is primordial to every electioneering campaign to make convincing promises to the electorates. The peculiar case of our department was resoundedly made known in the course of campaign; every successive administration has achieved little success on the promises they had made. I will like to use this God-given opportunity to charge every elected officer here today, starting with myself; to actualize our manifestoes.

Much of my responsibilities as President will be coordination of the activities of EMSA while keeping faith with the rule of law as espoused in the constitution of the association.

The electioneering period witnessed certain divides in interests or alignments. Fellow classmates had to compete against each other in seeking the votes of you all (student). The Vice President 1 and P. R. O post was between two individuals who both possesses the capabilities to reposition EMSA. Even so, I want to state that in spite of the outcomes there is NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED.

The Creation of the Estate Management Students Representative Council (EMSRC) and the judicial council was necessitated to ensure the executives make periodical reports to the entire students’ populace and to check and curb the excesses of the executives. The Pioneering Members of the EMSRC and the judicial council seated here today will be standing in for these students, and they must not fall short in their responsibility to serve as oversight to the Executives.

To the wonderful set of executives I will be serving with in the course of the next 6-7 (six to seven) months, I believe our interests are aligned to the notion of Qualitative Service to the entirety of Estate Management Students, and I will ensure that it is our perpetual duty to follow these interests.
To every Estate Management Students I will be serving, I will work not to disappoint you.

God bless Estate Management Department,
God bless Obafemi Awolowo University
God bless Nigeria.
Thank you. From the office of the PRO, EMSA Oauife.

President