By Adesina Wahab
The management of the Lagos State University, LASU, has said the ongoing process of selecting a substantive Vice Chancellor for the institution is credible and warned against attempts by some people to discredit the process.
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by the Coordinator, Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, CIPPR, Mr Ademola Adekoya.
“Our attention has been drawn to a viral video by one @Baloguneko making the rounds on the social media, where he accused the Pro Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of the University, Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo, of attempting to manipulate the ongoing selection process of the next Vice Chancellor of the University, purportedly to favour some candidates and shortchange others.
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Senior academics at the Lagos State University (LASU) have faulted the process newly initiated to select the next Vice-Chancellor of the institution, citing diverse antics by some powerful individuals that have hijacked the entire process.
The academics under the aegis of Concerned Senior Academics of LASU asked the Governor and Visitor of the institution, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to reconstitute the Joint Council and Senate Selection Committee in line with the LASU Law, 2004.
They expressed these concerns in a two-page letter by Prof. Oladimeji Kolawole, Prof. Olalekan Jaiyeoba and Prof. Adeleke Yusuff, picking holes in the fresh process the governor directed the Governing Council to initiate penultimate week.
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The union also commended Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, for cancelling the “controversial selection process” of a new vice-chancellor for the university.
The union had, in a letter to the governor dated January 1, 2021,
alleged irregularities by the Adebayo Ninalowo-led selection committee.
On Saturday, Sanwo-Olu ordered the
cancellation of the process and asked Olanrewaju Fagbohun, the outgoing VC, to convene an emergency senate meeting to appoint one of the deputy vice-chancellors as acting vice-chancellor from January 11.
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Tony Dansu and Adeolu Oyekan, the union’s secretary and assistant secretary, respectively, in a statement on Sunday, said the decision of the governor would restore confidence and transparency in the process.