Sacked Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof.
Toyin Ogundipe, has dropped a lawsuit he filed at the National Industrial Court
to challenge his sacking by the varsity’s Governing Council.
The suit, marked NICN/LA/278/2020, had as defendants:
UNILAG; the varsity’s Council; its Senate; Pro-Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin
(SAN); Registrar, Oladejo Azeez; and Prof. Theophilus Soyombo, who was
appointed acting VC in the wake of Ogundipe’s controversial sacking.
Ogundipe had filed an ex parte application, which was
pending for hearing before the court.
But his lawyers, Messrs Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) and Ebun-Olu
Adegboruwa (SAN) approached the court on Friday with an application to
discontinue the case.
The Notice of Discontinuance, filed pursuant to Order 61(1)(1) of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (Civil Procedure) 2017, simply read, “Take Notice that the claimant doth hereby wholly discontinue this suit against the 1st-6th defendants.”
However, in a statement, titled, “Court did not refuse Prof.
Ogundipe’s case,” Adegboruwa explained that the embattled VC took the decision
to drop the suit “upon detailed consultation with all stakeholders and his
supporters in and outside the University.”
Adegboruwa said, “Prof. Ogundipe directed his lawyers to
file a notice of discontinuance of the suit and this has been done on August
21, 2020.
“This is to defer to the authority of the President as the
Visitor of the University as Prof. Ogundipe has enough time to challenge his
purported removal.”
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