The university is under a chokehold of supremacy contest between the governing council led by Dr. Wale Babalakin, and the management which has no clear headship at the moment – Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe having purportedly been sacked as vice-chancellor by council but with no one accepting that sack – not even interest blocs with seats on same council like the university senate and students’ national alumni.
The senate, which held an emergency meeting on Thursday, argued that though extant laws give council the power to hire and fire vice-chancellors, the case in point did not follow due process and thus is void. Spokesperson and former Dean of Law Professor Chioma Agomo cited Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2003, which provides that where a vice-chancellor is to be removed for misconduct, a joint panel of council and senate should be set up; saying “this was not done in this case.