The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Nigeria, Prof. Wahab Egbewole (SAN), has congratulated the Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of the state Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, on his 85th birthday today (Tuesday).

Egbewole, in a statement signed by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, described the Emir as an outstanding leader and a statesman whose reign has brought tremendous positive developments to the Emirate and Kwara State.

The Vice Chancellor said the Emir has made several marks in national development in his jurisprudence as a lawyer and a Justice of the Court of Appeal before his ascension to the throne as the 11th Emir of Ilorin in 1995.

Egbewole was particularly grateful to the Emir for being a father to all, saying that the Emir’s disposition to non-indigenes living or doing business in his domain was devoid of any form of discrimination whatsoever.

He added that this disposition, more than any other factor, has contributed significantly to making Ilorin one of the fastest-growing cities in the country.

Egbewole specifically thanked the monarch, who is also the Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, and Muhammad Kamalud-Deen University, Ilorin, for the consistent fatherly roles he has been extending to the University before and since his ascension to the stool of his forebears.

The Vice Chancellor said that the prevailing peace enjoyed by the University cannot be divorced from the peaceful dispositions of the Emir and his people, saying that the University is in peace because its host community is in harmony.