The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) has lambasted the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Governing
Council Chairman, Wale Babalakin.
ASUU told him that the hire and
fire of a Vice-Chancellor was not his sole right.
The council had sacked UNILAG VC,
Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and named Prof. Theophilus Omololu Soyombo (Faculty
of Social Sciences) as replacement.
Reacting, the Committee of VC condemned the removal, calling it a “hatchet job”.
ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi,
at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday insisted that due process was not
followed.
“We are shocked not because we
regard Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as a saint but for the fact that all available
evidence indicates that he was not taken through the due process.
“For the avoidance of doubt,
Babalakin should be reminded that the knowledge of procedures and process for
appointment and removal of Vice-Chancellors is not the exclusive preserve of
legal luminaries,” NAN quoted him as saying.
The “legal luminaries” was a
veiled description of Babalakin, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
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