By: Ajadi Sodiq
Interviewer: Can we meet you?
Etunwoke Favour: My name is Etunwoke Favour, I’m a 200 Level student of the Department of Political Science and I’m vying for the post of Vice President of the Department.
I’m also a Tech enthusiast and a businessman, I’m passionate about solving problems because that is what I do and I think that my knowledge would foster the development of the department.
Interviewer: What Knowledge did you have on leadership roles?
Etunwoke Favour: I’ve been privilege to hold several positions in different sectors in Tech though, I’m currently the SEC team leader in Ibadan Techites Club and also the Team Leader of the Google Developers Students Club, UI, I’m also the Head of Media Department in my team and Acting President of the Youth Fellowship in my church, I’m also a proud member of the ECOWAS Youth Forum, UI and the CEO and Co-founder of my company Teque Hub.
I’m the FireBase student Ambassador, at UI, and also a member of the Social and Planning Committee, Department of Political Science.
Interviewer: What Motivated you to run for this post?
Etunwoke Favour: Good question, I feel that my skills, Knowledge, and Exposure would help foster the development of the department most especially in the welfare of the students. I feel I could lay down certain systems and traditions which could help foster the development of the department making things less stressful and easier for students and the administration in general, as a vice president I’ll be in charge of student’s welfare and at the same time in charge of the Week Planning Committee, I think a lot has to be done when it comes to exposing the students to the right opportunity and I could help get that done.
And a lot more, building systems that will help the development of the department when it comes to welfare, as a Tech enthusiast I work more on problem-solving, I have sorted out some problems in which I was strictly affected and I feel that I have the right knowledge and solutions to those problems and that is why I’m running for the post.
Interviewer: What are your plans for the department or let me say your priorities to do? if elected.
Etunwoke Favour: I really want to use this opportunity to appreciate the present administration they’ve really done well and firstly want to continue from where they stop and make things better. Majorly, I want to work on a mentorship program because I was not privilege to have one and I really an idea and concept which I’m trying to build when it comes to the mentorship program and I think it could be made better.
Secondly, the welfare of the students when it comes to aggregating views, I know one thing that fosters development are ideas and views – getting ideas and views from different people, different ideas and getting people to voice out, sometimes, it may not be convenient for someone to or the administration to organize a congress to hear everybody out, So I want to build the system that makes it very easy for that to be put in place when it comes to aggregating views, that is a second thing. And also, I want to work more on entrepreneurship and exposure – that’s very important because we need to be thinking about life after school and majorly as a businesman, being previlege to work with various companies, one of them is I’m proudly an ambassador of Heyfood and I was privilege to work with team of developers on the organization app.
Interviewer: What did you think is the biggest challenge of our department?
Etunwoke Favour: My own opinion, I believe that we need to work more on the unity factor, I was not privilege or will I say the freshers were not too privilege to know people of other levels should I say that’s one of the striking challenge in the department, I feel the system needs to be in place for get with this unity among all levels like the 100 level are complaining that their seniors are not close to them and the seniors at the other end were complaining that they could not condesence so low to the freshers and this doesn’t forster development. In every developed society, one of the most important factor is unity and they should be able to unite the department because if the department is unity we are looking at academic performance, social development and at the same time we are looking at the development of every individual in the department too. so I believed Unity of the department is one of the posing challenges that I’m going to solve in the department.
I believed that the administration needs to put system in place that it’s not only social gathering that unite people, there are other means that could make this very possible and make people very closer, for example, the cultural night and every social gathering we’ve been having some people don’t attend those social gatherings but I think some opportunities need to be given to those people to enjoy the same opportunity in the department because we are all part of the department, we all have the same privilege, we all wrote the exams, did matriculation together we have to be able to cater for those set of people so some people that are not the social type that don’t attend social gathering what are we doing to get them into the system because it’s a collective contribution everybody has to be part of the system.
Interviewer: How would you go about it?
Etunwoke Favour: You know it’s one thing to spot a problem and it’s another thing to be able to solve them or have a solution to the problem, I mentioned one thing earlier which is my mentorship programme – I’m trying to make it a quite more different and more bonding because there’s this usual mentor to mentee programme but I’ve been privilege to see how it’s done in other schools, and other segment and I feel that it’s not done as a one man or mentor to mentee, that should be done as a group and then we could have different levels all in the same group, it helps the bond and it brings this people closer.
Interviewer: Are you saying a committee would be set up for the programme?
Etunwoke Favour: Yes.
Interviewer: Having known you’re not the only contestant going for the post, what sets you apart from your competitor?
Etunwoke Favour: I can’t speak for the motive of my opponent but I’m confident of my capacity and ability to serve the department at all cost. Having served in different parastatals and I’ve achieved great success I will do everything humane possible to make sure I achieve my sets goals and I should be held accountable to my words at the end of my tenure.
Interviewer: What would be your message to the people of the department and your opponent, if you lost the election?
Etunwoke Favour: I will extend my congratulations to the winner of the election. I urge all of you to come together and support our elected representatives as they navigate the challenges and responsibilities that lie ahead. Our collective well-being should always take precedence over personal victories or defeats. And I will devote my support to the administration regardless of the outcome as a devoted member of the department and that is most paramount for the smooth running of the administration.
Interviewer: Thank you so much for your time, Mr. Favour.
Etunwoke Favour: It’s my pleasure to have you, sir.
