Bayo Adaralegbe has resigned from the governing council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
Mr Adaralegbe joins businessman and lawyer Wale Babalakin who resigned on September 15.
Adaralegbe, who works at Babalakin’s law chambers, tendered his resignation to the Minister of Education Adamu Adamu on Friday.
According to him, his continued stay would dishonour the memory of his late father Prof. Adeniji Adaralegbe.
Part of his letter read: “Dr Babalakin provided very strong moral leadership as Pro Chancellor and Chairman of Council. He kept scrupulously to the promise he made at our maiden Council meeting not to bid for, or be awarded contracts from the University. He actually did more. By December 2019 he had poured approximately N100 millions of his own personal resources on different endeavors in the University. At the time this situation arose, he was in the process of transferring to the University (at no cost to it) 40 hectares of land he owned in Ogudu, Lagos to address its staff housing problems.
“Those of us federal government appointees followed his strong moral leadership.”
He added: “Recent developments have, unfortunately, made my continued stay on the Governing Council of the University of Lagos very untenable. I experienced first-hand, the Vice-Chancellor of a University falsifying interview results for the position of Director of Works. Professor Toyin Ogundipe threatened to beat me up during an interview session for the position of Director of Works because I resisted his attempt to falsify interview results.
“It was also in University of Lagos that I experienced a Vice-Chancellor attempting to appoint a Professor in respect of a discipline that the University did not have a department, did not admit undergraduate or postgraduate students, and through a one-page Memorandum to the Pro-Chancellor that touted the candidate as an ‘agent of change’. This is of course apart from a litany of corrupt practices.”
Adaralegbe also denied claims that he got his council role by falsifying his state of origin.
