My Purported Removal Ilegal – Embattled UNILAG VC, Ogundipe Speaks
Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Embattled Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos says his removal is Ilegal.
Nigeriancablenewsonline.com earlier reported the decision of the University Governing Council to sack Ogundipe as the VC through an announcement at it’s meeting in Abuja today.
However, Ogundipe has tagged the decision of the council as an “illegality” that cannot stand in his reply to the Professor Babalakin led Council.
Ogundipe in a statement he personally signed also said the decision to remove him contravenes the law of the school, while calling on the general public to discountenance the council’s announcement
The statement reads:
” 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.”
“The purported removal is an illegality and cannot stand as it is in clear violation of the University of Lagos Act, as amended. Assuming without conceding, that the purported removal is true, the extant provisions of the law have not been complied with.”
“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.” He concluded.
