…Achievers Meeting: VC MAU congratulates new CMD MAUTH who commends, appreciates VC…
…Synergy between MAUTH and MAU sacrosanct…
…I’m now CMD because you brought me to Yola, I assure you that where Prof Auwal stopped we’ll move ahead to do better because he can still be leaned on to be supported where we’ll be weak – Prof Bakari to Prof Liman Tukur
…MAUTH Yola, having been upgraded to a teaching hospital from FMC, gets her name from MAU as the first baby – Prof Bakari
The Periscope Global
The vice chancellor, Modibbo Adama University, MAU Yola, Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, Prof Abdullahi Liman Tukur said that medical professionals are among those who make nonsense of all primordial relationship and sentiments; they don’t care about tribe, region, religion, political party lining, family and/or social status when it comes to patient management, hence it’s immaterial the ethnicity or faith based sentiment rather than competency, capacity and capability when it comes to appointing chief executive of a health facility.
Prof Tukur Wednesday, made the remark while receiving the management of Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH Yola, in his office.
Prof Adamu Bakari Girei is the newly appointed Chief Medical Director, CMD, MAUTH Yola, he explained that the courtesy call was to present the new leadership of the health facility he considered as necessary because the hospital, having been upgraded to a teaching hospital from Federal Medical Centre, gets her name from the university as the first baby.
Prof Bakari reiterated that beyond the national assembly, it was the efforts of the Vice Chancellor and the State Governor that made Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital.
The new CMD commended the VC for the selfless, servant-leadership, whose interest is institutional based rather than self-serving and prayed for a worthy successor that would do better because the VC’s tenure is about to come to an end.
Prof Bakari revealed that he’s serving as CMD because Prof Liman Tukur brought him from ABU Zaria to Yola with the appointment to serve as pioneer provost, college of medical science MAU Yola, when he didn’t even know him; adding that the VC invested in MAUTH Yola to have a Paediatric Centre of Excellence and not the university because he considered MAU and MAUTH Yola as one and the same institution.
Prof Bakari reassured the VC that he would continue from where the pioneer CMD, Prof Auwal Muhammad Abubakar stopped, “we’ll move ahead to do better because prof Auwal can still be leaned on. Our target is to accomplish your mission. Thank you for your openness, for learning under you; your transparency, accountabi and teamwork”.
The VC thanked the new CMD for coming with a very large delegation, reiterated that so much as the history of MAUTH Yola is well known, it’s worthy to resist temptation of apportioning credit, what is required is to ensure that it has come to stay.
The university has faced baseless resistances previously, the first being the change of name from Federal University of Technology, FUT Yola, to Modibbo Adama University of Technology, MAUTECH.
Prof Tukur said that some people resisted the idea of the conversion of the technology based to a conventional university without understanding the necessity for the initiative, which included dwindling students admission into the institution owing to insecurity and the constraints associated with funds among other issues.
According to Prof Tukur, college of medical science predated the conversion of the university to a conventional status, explaining that it was the regulatory agencies that misinterpreted the status of the institution that has the right to establish medical school irrespective of whether or not technology is based.
The VC said that the letter conveying the approval of the conversion speaks volume. It read it was in response to the state government’s request; reflecting how Governor Fintiri led a delegation of Adamawa stakeholders that included the Waziri Adamawa, the former vice president Atiku Abubakar and former state governors among other dignitaries to President Muhammadu Buhari to forward the state’s request for the change of the university status.
Synergy between MAU and MAUTH Yola is sacrosanct with sincerity of purpose, the VC said, where he revealed the exerted political pressures on the appointment of the pioneer provost for the college of medical science and how he resisted the pressures with the constitution of the committee of medical professionals with integrity to provide capable candidate for the job.
The VC expressed delight that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has vindicated him with the appointment of the pioneer provost, college of medical science of the university, Prof Bakari as the substantive CMD MAUTH Yola
The VC thanked Prof Bakari, who Lamido Adamawa described as “brand new CMD” for the courtesy visit, saying that “doors are opened to each other; with synergy we have potential to excel.
Prof Bakari was presented with a congratulatory plaque by Prof Liman Tukur led management of Modibbo Adama University.