The best graduating student of Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State,
Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, speaks to SAMUEL AWOYINFA on his road to success
The best graduating student of the Crawford University in the 2012/2013
convocation, Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, did not initially set out to study
Economics. In fact, he had done two years as a medical student at the
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, before he took another Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination, and secured admission to study
Economics at Crawford.
Sotubo says he got fascinated to medicine because his father, Olukunle
(now late), and elder brother, Tomiwa, were doctors. But after two
years, he found out that he had no passion for it.
He says, “I was admitted in 2007 to study Medicine, but we resumed in
2008. I enrolled as a medical student because my dad and elder brother
were doctors. I did very well in all my courses, but along the line, I
discovered that I really did not have passion for Medicine.
“After a close monitoring of my dad’s schedule, I realised that the
profession was too demanding. So I quit in 2009. I had to sit the UTME
and applied to read Economics at the Crawford University and I passed.”
Beaming with smile, slim-built Sotubo adds that he has no regret for a change of course of study and university.
“No regret whatsoever. I believe as an economist, I can still save
lives, through sound economic policies that will lead to creation of
employment and development of the country,” he says.
For him to earn the