It’s a known fact that the Professor Charles Okechukwu Esimone’s leadership which is gradually winding down, repositioned, revived and revamped the higher institution as one of the leading citadel of learning in our dear nation through pragmatic, ideal and purposeful leadership by making the varsity the unrivaled choice for learning, impact, discipline, dexterity and academic excellence.
When Prof Esimone assumed leadership in 2019, he met an institution with huge infrastructural deficit with most structures either ongoing or abandoned.
He swung into action to see that most of these buildings serving special purposes as Faculty, Administrative or Departmental were all completed within a short while with a view to bridging the infrastructural gap and equally restoring the aesthetic view of the University.
Under the visionary watch of Prof Esimone, new faculties and departments were approved by Senate and some have been accredited by NUC which include Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences; Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences and departments include Environmental Health Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dentistry, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity and Urban & Regional Planning amongst others.
Prof Esimone introduced digital appraisal of the staff to ensure transparent and timely appraisal and promotion of staff. The whole staff of the university are very happy with this development.
Many workshops, inaugural lectures, seminars, leadership impact and trainings were held under Esimone’s administration which was part of his mission of training and retraining up-to-date and refined lecturers in line with global best practices.
How many lions would a hunter kill before he will earn his deserved name as a great hunter??
A call through one of our correspondence in Awka reveals that the University is very calm and semester exams & other activities ongoing as well. The false information being circulated by those who do not wish the University community well should be totally disregarded and ignored by well-meaning Nigerians who were true witnesses to Prof Esimone’s stewardship in UNIZIK.
The process of electing the Vice Chancellor’s successor is not shrouded in secrecy to warrant any provocative and demeaning write-ups geared towards tarnishing the image of the outstanding and quintessential outgoing VC.
The general public is hereby assured of smooth, free, fair, credible, lawful and transparent transition to the new Vice Chancellor.
