By Precious Oham
Ekiti State First Lady, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji on Monday, donated cash gift to support the resilient spirit of Ekiti-born student of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Damilola Adeparusi, (Chef Dammy) who is currently on her 120 hours Cook-A-Thon.
The first lady donation was announced on the official twitter handle of Chef Dammy @spiritwordGM, who expressed deep appreciation to the Governor’s wife for her magnanimity.
Damilola Adeparusi, a student of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti on Saturday began a journey to break world record in cooking, a decision which has elicited positive reactions from many quarters.
Earlier, Dr. Oyebanji had sent message of commendation to the young lady via her various social media platforms.
The first lady who described Chef Dammy as an audacious youth, said she was personally touched and impressed that she braced up, despite all odds, to use her God-given talent to make a statement.
In the same vein, Vice-Chancellor of FUOYE, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has equally thrown his weight behind Chef Damilola.
The VC visited the student chef with members of the University Governing Council and the Management team to further encourage her on her resilient spirit to achieve greatness with her skills.
Stating the purpose of his visit, Prof. Fasina said: “ We are very glad with your resilient spirit in achieving greatness by showcasing your skills and talents as a chef. You have made us really proud globally by showing to the world that we have students who have been well tutored and inspired to take up the gauntlet and achieve greatness with their God-given talents and skills.
“In FUOYE , we motivate to innovate. We encourage our students to pursue their dreams with sound and functional education which we painstakingly impact into our students and you are a shining example and testimony of the hard work of our dynamic lecturers.
“We are indeed very happy for you and we encourage you and others to continue to make us proud by bringing into practice the functional education and positive values you are receiving in FUOYE.”
