Meet the 21year old student that couldn't pass WAEC but graduated as the best student with a 4.91 GP

The best graduating student of Crawford

University, Igbesa in Ogun has shared his

victory. Oluwatimilehin ‘Dipo Sotubo, 21,

finished with an astounding 4.91 Cumulative

Grade Point Average (CGPA), the highest in

the school, and he tells of the trials that

pushed him to succeed.

He said :

“I was not always a brilliant student, ” I failed

my WASSCE and passed the second time. I was

an average student. I just told myself that it

was time I sat up and become the best so I

dedicated all my time to reading to be the best;

that was how I made it.

The Nation reports :

Beneath the smiles, he was bustling with

happiness about graduating with a of 4.91 –

the highest in the university. Considering that

he was an average student in secondary

school, who could not make the requisite

papers in the West African Senior School

Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in his first

attempt, it was a great achievement.

Dipo won the Ernest Shonekan’s Prize for the

graduating student with the most outstanding

behaviour in and outside the university;

Professor Peter Okebukola Science Foundation

Prize for the best overall graduating student.

Mrs Ngozi Osueke’s Prize for the best behaved

graduating male student; Parents’ Forum Prize

for overall best graduating student; Remi

Olowude Prize for the graduating student with

the best overall result in economics;

Parents’ Forum Prize for the best graduating

student in the college of Business and Social

Science; Pa Simon Ajetumobi Foundation

Award for the best graduating student in the

College of Business and Social Sciences; and the

Departmental Prize for the best graduating

student in economics.