…Constitutes visitation panel, suspends Babalakin and Ogundipe, sacks acting Vice Chancellor
In a dramatic twist of taste, President Muhammadu Buhari, as Visitor to the University of Lagos, has constituted a Visitation Panel to look into the crisis in the university.
This is just as he has wielded the big stick by suspending all the parties to the institutions dispute.
News of the latest in the ivory towers crisis was contained in a report monitored on NTA Network news at 9pm on Friday August 21, 2020.
In addition, the President took the following decisions:
1. The Panel is to submit its report within two weeks.
2. The Pro-Chancellor, Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, have been suspended from office as they are both to recuse themselves from performing their functions in office during the period of the Visitation.
3. The Senate is to convene urgently and appoint an Acting Vice-Chancellor for the university.
With this decision, the President has sacked the Acting Vice-Chancellor purportedly appointed by the Babalakin-led Council.
