President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the appointment of Prof. Charles Egbu from Anambra State as vice-chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom.
The president sent his congratulatory message in a release on Friday by his spokesman Femi Adesina.
Buhari felicitated with the academic, who is the first black person appointed helmsman of a ranked university in the UK, urging him to continue to proudly hold the flag of Nigeria aloft in all his endeavours in the elevated position.
“With wide experience as Pro-Chancellor at the University of East London, Dean of the School of Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University, and stints at University of Salford, University College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, Leeds Beckett University, among others, I have no doubt that you will acquit yourself creditably once again in this new assignment,” he said.
According to the president, Egbu who has 12 books and over 350 publications to his credit is a worthy example of an industrious Nigerian, whom the younger generation should adopt as a role model.
He urged the new VC, who assumes office in November, to build on the strong foundations laid by his predecessors at the university where he is equally an alumnus.
On his part, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sent his congratulatory message via Twitter.
“Congratulations, Prof Charles Egbu, on your historic appointment as Vice-Chancellor of @LeedsTrinity. I am not only proud of your achievement, but I am also excited that this reinforces the truth that there are much more positives to our story as a people and a nation,” he wrote.
