The University of Lagos (UNILAG) Senate is presently meeting to choose an acting vice-chancellor according to directives from President Muhammadu Buhari.
Drama had ensued on Monday after the institution’s registrar Oladejo Azeez tried to stop Senate members from meeting at the main auditorium.
Part of a memo he signed read: “This is to inform all Senate members that no meeting of the Senate has been summoned, members should await proper notice of meeting after the Federal Government of Nigeria has clarified some issues germane to the meeting.”
The memo was addressed to the head of auditorium management unit, J.J.F Ade Ajayi Auditorium, instructing the official not to make any facility available for the Senate meeting for the same reason.
Buhari had in a directive last Friday asked the Senate to elect an acting vice-chancellor as opposed to the governing council doing so.
The school was thrown into crisis after the sudden removal of Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as vice-chancellor by the Wale Babalakin-led governing council on several allegations.
Both men including Prof Theophilus Soyombo who was appointed acting vice-chancellor by the council in Ogundipe’s place have stood down as the president intervenes.
A member of Senate who pleaded anonymity told The Nation that the Senate would vote one of the deputy vice-chancellors – Prof. Folasade Ogunsola (Development Services) or Prof. Ben Oghojafor (Management Services) – as acting VC.
