President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to dissolve the Governing Council of the University of Lagos.
Academic and non-academic staff of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, made this call, stating that the Chairman of the Council, Dr Wale Babalakin, SAN, is acting contrary to the dictates of his office and working against the progress of the citadel of learning.
This follows the removal of the institute’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and appointment of a new acting VC, Prof Omololu Soyombo.
The workers, speaking through Dr. Dele Ashiru of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), under the aegis of the Joint Staff Union, JSU, made this demand at a Congress they held on the campus on Thursday, August 13.
The workers also said that there was no room for any surrogate acting Vice-Chancellor in the institution.
The worker unions are the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.
The workers said the bad precedence that the Council tried to set should not be allowed to remain and that the country was not the Banana Republic.