There are feelers among University staff that the inexplicable exclusion of those who have become professors, but without PhDs, was as a result of the outgoing vice-chancellor’s desire to have Odusanya as his successor. The question, however, is whether a university that is currently flushing out some of its academics without PhDs on account of the lack of academic progress can afford to have a vice-chancellor who does not possess a PhD. The tenure of the eighth substantive vice-chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, will end on January 11, 2021. However, there are a number of professors who have been shortlisted for interview for the position of the ninth vace chancellor of LASU, which is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 21. Among the five already shortlisted candidates, there are clear two frontrunners, Professors Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello and Olumuyiwa Odusanya, both of the College of Medicine, Lagos State University. The other three contestants are not pushovers. They include Professors Senapon Bakre and Kabir Akinyemi, both of the Faculty of Science, Lagos State University, and Professor Muyiwa Awofolu of the Namibian University of Science and Technology.