Governor of Lagos State and the visitor to the Lagos State University (LASU), Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has dissolved the governing council of the university in line with the recommendation of the Visitation Panel constituted on the appointment of the 9th vice-chancellor of the state-owned university.
Sanwo-Olu after consideration of the report of the Special Visitation Panel and by the powers conferred on him by the Lagos State University Law, Cap L69 volume 7, Laws of Lagos State, 2015 (as amended), adopted the recommendations of the panel which include the immediate dissolution of the governing council and the removal of the pro-chancellor and chairman of council for flagrant violations of the extant laws and regulations of the university guiding the appointment of a vice-chancellor.
The governor approved the cancellation of the second failed exercise to appoint the 9th substantive vice-chancellor as a result of the flagrant contravention of extant laws, breach of due process, failure and total disregard to follow its own laid down criteria guiding the process for the appointment of a new vice-chancellor as publicly advertised.
A new governing council for the university is to be reconstituted in due course to conduct a new process for the appointment of the 9th vice-chancellor.
Also, members of the joint council and the senate committee who participated in the two failed exercises of 2020 and 2021 to appoint a 9th vice-chancellor are exempted from further participation in the new exercise for the appointment of the vice-chancellor. The acting vice-chancellor and management of the university have, therefore, been directed to elect new council members from the senate.
Sanwo-Olu also approved that the registrar and secretary to governing council of the university should immediately proceed on compulsory leave till the end of the process for the appointment of a new vice-chancellor, having failed to advise the joint council and senate committee against taking wrong decisions, which were against the provision of the law during the two failed exercises of 2020 and 2021.
An acting registrar will superintend over the new exercise. The acting vice-chancellor is to forward to the governor/visitor through the surrogate council (special adviser on education) the list of all the deputy registrars of Lagos State University for the purpose of appointing an acting registrar for the university.
The governor, following the recommendation of the special visitation panel, shall immediately setting up a full visitation panel for the university.
