History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic..(moshood abiola Polytechnic)

History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic.. 

  

History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic now moshood abiola Polytechnic.. 

 Harris Otadafevwerha Deodemise Eghagha

Governor of Ogun State

In office

July 1978 – October 1979

Preceded by Saidu Ayodele Balogun

Succeeded by Olabisi Onabanjo

Personal details

Born 8 March 1934

Okpe LGA, Delta State, Nigeria

Died 19 March 2009

Brigadier General Harris Otadafevwerha

Deodemise Eghagha was appointed Military

Governor of Ogun State, Nigeria from July

1978 to October 1979 during the military

regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo ,

handing over power to the elected governor

Olabisi Onabanjo at the start of the Nigerian

Second Republic.

Eghagha was born on 8 March 1934 in

Mureje, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta

State.

His achievements while governor

of Ogun State included building the legislative

quarters and the road network in Abeokuta ,

the state capital.

 He built and

commissioned the Ogun State Hotel, Abeokuta,

established industrial estates throughout the

State and founded the Ogun State Polytechnic

(now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic ) in

Abeokuta. 

He founded the Polytechnic when Governor Jemibewon's administration sent ogun State indigenes back to Abeokuta under the pretext that every member of the new State must go to his or her State of origin.. 

He also served as Acting

Governor of Sokoto and Kwara States, and was

Nigeria's High Commissioner to Ghana.

Brigadier Harris Eghagha died at the Lagos

University Teaching Hospital on 19 March

2009, aged 75.

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