Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has disregarded his purported removal by the Governing Council of the institution.
Control TV had earlier reported that the University Council had reached a decision at the Secretariat of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abuja, on Wednesday to remove the VC from Office and was announced by Oladejo Azeez, Registrar and Secretary to the council.
Ogundipe was removed on acts of wrongdoing, financial recklessness, gross misconduct and abuse of office against his name.
However, In a statement, the VC declared that the council’s decision “is untrue and a figment of his imagination.”
“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 statement said.
“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.”
