A professor who attended the Governing Council meeting faulted the Vice-Chancellor's sack.
The management of the University of Lagos and the institution’s governing council were on Wednesday locked in a leadership tussle.of the university’s vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
He urged the public to disregard “the mischievous disinformation” because even if the “purported removal” was true, “the extant provisions of the law have not been complied with” by the council.The action of the governing council, however, appears contrary to the law establishing the university. The law vests the power to remove a vice-chancellor on the Nigerian president.establishment law
“While the ministry awaits for the proper briefing from the university authorities, it is important to reaffirm that council has the power to hire and fire, but that due process must be followed in doing so,” Mr Goong told Punch newspaper on Wednesday.requires the governing council to set up a joint committee of itself and the university senate before a recommendation to remove a vice-chancellor can be forwarded to the president.
He alleged that the vice-chancellor was denied the opportunity to defend himself before the Pro-Chancellor called for a vote for the removal of the VC. The perennial conflict between the university’s management and its governing council worsened in March when its week-long 2020 convocation was abruptly cancelled.
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