The senate of the University of
Lagos (UNILAG) will on Monday meet to appoint an acting vice-chancellor as
recommended by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the VC of
the institution, was earlier removed by the varsity’s governing council during
a meeting presided over by Wale Babalakin, its pro-chancellor and chairman.
The council had thereafter named
Omololu Soyombo as the acting VC in a decision that a member of the council
claimed ridiculed the varsity’s rules.
According to Premium Times, over
140 professors signed for an urgent senate meeting, where the signatories
exceeded half of the senate’s 230 members and four times more than the required
25.
It is understood that the
emergency senate meeting is one of the decisions contained in the federal
government’s recommendations announced on Friday night to address the crisis in
UNILAG.
Buhari had directed Ogundipe and
Babalakin to step aside and allow the senate of the university to nominate an
acting vice-chancellor.
Reacting to the directive in a
statement on Saturday, Soyombo said he had stepped down “with immediate effect”
in obedience to the directive of the president.
“The news of the setting up of a
special visitation panel to the University of Lagos by the federal government
was received in the evening of Friday, 21st August 2020. The government also
directed the university senate to nominate an acting vice-chancellor for the
university, for confirmation by the governing council,” he had said.
“With this, I am stepping down,
with immediate effect, as acting vice-chancellor of the university.
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