UNILAG Face-off: Ogundipe Insists On Vice-chancellorship Position

Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has described his purport removal as the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) by the governing council of the institution as “figment of the Registrar’s imagination”.

Reports say Ogundipe was removed at the governing council’s meeting held Wednesday at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission, Abuja.

One report says the Vice chancellor was sacked at the meeting presided over by its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN).

Mikhail Mumuni, the media adviser to chairman of the governing council, Wale Babalakin, was said to have later confirmed the purported sack, according to PREMIUM TIMES report.

But in a counter statement, the institution said, “The attention of the University of Lagos (Unilag) management has been drawn to the ‘Notice to the General Public on the Removal of the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos’; dated August 12, 2020 and signed by Oladejo Azeez, Esq, Registrar and Secretary to Council, stating that the current Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin T. Ogundipe, FAS has been removed from office with immediate effect.

“This is untrue and a figment of his imagination. Therefore, stakeholders of UNILAG and the general public are advised to disregard this mischievous disinformation about the sitting Vice Chancellor of Unilag, contained in that notice. Professor Ogundipe still remains UNILAG’s Vice Chancellor.”

Ogundipe is being accused of financial impropriety and gross misconduct.