The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Dr Olutoyin Okeowo, has described Emeritus Prof Ayo Banjo, as a distinguished personality, whose towering eminence is celebrated widely across the globe. Prof Banjo, who clocks 90 today, served as the pioneer Pro-Chancellor and later, chairman of ACU Board of Trustees, succeeding Emeritus Prof Oladipo Akinkugbe. Before he became pioneer Pro-Chancellor of ACU, he served as chairman of the university implementation committee. In his birthday message to the professor of English, Okeowo said, “Ayo Banjo remains a great man of imposing height, having been able to touch many lives positively and having been very instrumental to nurturing and sustaining the lives of many universities and other socio-political institutions in and outside Nigeria.” Okeowo stated that ACU would continue to benefit from the operational template laid by Banjo as well as benefaction he and other notable individuals who served