The Ekiti Parapo College Old Students Association (EPCOSA) will hold its 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Reunion at the school’s premises, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State on Saturday, 11th November.
EPCOSA National President, Mr. Dotun Adekanmbi said: “TheAGM and Reunion, which will be hosted by the 1983 set of old students, is an annual performance presentation by the National Executive Committee to avail members a status report on the Association vis-à-vis the development and growth of our alma mater”, adding: “It is also an annual get-together of members to celebrate and share experiences of the outgoing year”.
According to a statement by EPCOSA’s National Public Relations Officer, Engr. Ayodeji Afolabi, the association’s National President explained that the 2023 edition of the AGM/Reunion is special as it is the lead-up to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Ekiti Parapo College (EKPACO), Ido Ekiti, which was the brainchild of two dynamic, though defunct associations of Ekiti indigenes – Ekiti National Association and Ekiti Progressive Union.
Adekanmbi further said: “The Platinum Jubilee of our College is planned as a one-year programme of activities that will commence with the marking of the Founders’ Day on Monday, 29th January 2024 while the Grand Finale will be held on Saturday, 7th December 2024″, stressing, “our association will formally unveil the logo and theme of the 70th-anniversary celebrations as well as make presentations to the College at the National Reunion event on Saturday, 11th November”.
Afolabi said: “Our primary goal for celebrating EKPACO at 70 is to underscore our association’s commitment to building a globally competitive educational institution that will be a legacy school to celebrate our past, consolidate our present and chart a new course for the future”.
Ahead of the launch of various events to mark the Platinum Jubilee, representatives of the Old Students Association plan to pay a courtesy visit to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, with a view to intimating him of plans for the coming-of-age of the only college in the state, founded primarily to underscore the unity of Ekiti people.
Ekiti Parapo College was founded on Friday, 29th January 1954 as a memorial to the 16-year (1877 – 1893) Ekiti war of independence that was fought to achieve the historic liberation of Ekitiland from the grips of Ibadan, their internal colonial masters.
