AWKA – The Dominican Sisters College, Abatete has reason to rejoice on Sunday when the former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections Mr. Peter Obi lay the foundation of a N100 million Boys’ hostel of the college.
This is the second boys’ hostel Obi is building for the college and third building he is instrumental to building in the college.
Obi who later cut a cake to mark the graduation ceremony of students of the college and later celebrated Sunday Mass in the church inside the College released N25 million as first tranche and promised that gradually but surely the building will be completed in no distant time.
He thanked the reverend sisters for what they have been able to do and pledged to assist them to build a school of their dream.
He said he is virtually a member of the Dominican Sisters’ community having worshipped in their church for no less than 10 times starting from when he was governor of Anambra State.
Obi advised the graduating students to embrace education because that is what made him what he is today.
He hinted that the burden of building the hostel may not be borne by him alone and that a certain man whose maternal home is in the town is giving a helping hand and that the man’s name will be revealed one day.
Obi said that everything he does is for the good of the society because if the society is good everyone will benefit and if it is bad it will also affect everybody.
In an interview, the first principal of the college, Rev. Sister Pia Mary Folashade Adesanya praised Obi for being a pillar of support and inspiration to the school.
She recalled several building projects Obi had attracted to the school, the first being the block built by a bank in place of a house for Obi during Obi’s 50th birthday.
Obi himself had recalled how the bank where he was director before becoming governor had wanted to build a house for him in his village to mark his birthday but he turned it down preferring that the bank build houses in three schools including Dominican Sisters College, Abatete.
Revd. Sister Adesanya also told of Obi’s assistance in paying salaries for the school when things were tough and his encouragement to make the school a boarding school which has paid off.
Apart from these, she continued, Obi gave the school two school buses, scholarships and computers.
Adesanya who is now Superior General of Holy Family Sisters of the Needy, which is a Vatican appointment said:” Seeing Obi today words failed me in how to describe my feelings because this ground I am standing on can be named Peter Obi’s soil because he saw this school from Genesis to Revelation. It was a day school. When things were so difficult as it was a Day School it was Obi who suggested that we make it a boarding school. Then we couldn’t pay salaries and he helped us to pay salaries for three months. As soon as Obi stepped into the school we witnessed a huge turn around” , she concluded.
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