The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Lagos State University(LASU) branch has commended Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the appointment of Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the state-owned university.
A statement jointly signed by the Secretary of the union, Tony Dansu, and his assistant, Adeolu Oyekan, also lauded the Governing Council and the Senate of the university for carrying initiating a peaceful selection process that led to the appointment of the new Vice-Chancellor.
The statement read in part: ‘’We wish to felicitate with Professor Olatunji-Bello on her appointment, and wish her a most successful tenure in office. After the charade of the last five years, characterized by high-handedness, victimization, disregard for due process, non-payment of the earned academic allowances of our members, running into the eleventh year now; and meddlesomeness in union affairs, among others, the University now has the opportunity to follow a different path and write a new chapter of genuine peace and progress. We wish the new Vice-Chancellor success, as she begins to address the numerous challenges facing the University.
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‘’We want to applaud the Governing Council and the Senate for facilitating a non-rancorous selection process, as opposed to the botched and flawed exercises under the previous Governing Council. It is our hope that going forward, objectivity and due process dispatched on forced sabbatical under the previous
Governing Council and Vice-Chancellor will be accorded their rightful place in the governance of the University.”
‘’We also wish to commend the Visitor for the courage demonstrated in addressing the anomalies of the previous processes. While the debacles generated were clearly avoidable, the protracted corrective procedures are worth it. We urge the Visitor to take the reset process in the university to a logical conclusion by constituting the Visitation Panel he promised in May, as soon as possible. It is overdue statutorily, and necessary under the circumstance. We believe that a credible visitation, backed with the prompt implementation of its recommendations, will help the relatively new Governing Council and the new Vice-Chancellor to reposition the University for effective delivery of its mandate.’’
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