The member representing Ogbadibo state constituency at the Benue State House of Assembly, Distinguished Honourable Samuel Ismaila Agada has called for synergies with the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO), to bring the needed education, healthcare delivery, and economic development to Benue South senatorial district, Benue State and Nigeria as a whole.

According to a statement issued by the coordinator of Information, Publication and Public Relations of the University Mr. James A. Onogwu said the lawmaker dropped this collaborative call when he paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chancellor at the University’s take-off campus, Otada, recently, stating that his constituents are proud of the Vice Chancellor’s sterling leadership and amazing work of uplifting the citadel of learning from nothing to a world-class status.

Accompanied by his aides – Misters Gabriel Onuh and James Udeh, the house member maintained that he was at the institution to congratulate the Vice Chancellor as the premier Vice Chancellor of the institution, and to encourage him to continue his developmental journey at the University, advocating ways of synergizing with the Vice Chancellor and the management of the University.

Hon Agada who hailed the ingenuity of Professor Ujah for setting an impressive record of development at FUHSO, commended the founding fathers for the establishment of FUHSO, positing that it’s a long-lasting legacy that should be supported by all and sundry and called on spiritual individuals, corporate organizations and philanthropists to synergize with the University management to advance the education, healthcare, and economic backwardness of Benue South.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor Innocent Ujah, mni, OON, NPOM while responding, thanked Hon. Samuel Agada for being the first among his contemporaries to visit and identify with the University, averring that the FUHSO is always open to genuine collaborations that will add value to the institution.

The Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology who informed the House Member that the academic process has been smooth since the inception of the University, expatiated the progress made on both the take-off campus and the permanent site, assuring that the College of Medicine; Senate, and Administrative Buildings, Principal Officers’ Quarters; Faculty of Science; Students’ Hostel; Physics and Biological Science Departments as well as the Guesthouse and fencing of the six hundred hectares of the land will be completed in a couple of months for relocation to the permanent site.

Joined during the visit by the DVC Academic – Professor Stephen Abah and the Bursar of the University, Mr. John Aba, the Vice Chancellor told the Honourable member that he will continue to do the good work of advancing the course of FUHSO and Nigeria, stating that there can only be development in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, calling for unity among the political actors to drive home the dividends of democracy to the people and commended the member for making out time for the visit.