The governing council of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has submitted three names of successful candidates to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The governor is expected to appoint one of the nominees as the institution’s 9th substantive vice-chancellor.
It was learnt that the decision followed the result of the interview conducted for five candidates by a seven-member joint council and senate selection committee.
Members of the selection committee, according to Premium Times, include professors Barakat Animashaun, Olatunde Owolabi and Babatunde Yusuff.
Those that represent the governing council on the committee include the incoming managing director of MTN in Nigeria, Karl Toriola; a lawyer and managing partner of AEC Legal, a law firm, Anu Eso, and an unnamed female member of the governing council, while the council’s chairman, Adebayo Ninalowo, doubles as the chairman of the committee.
The interview, which held on December 21, was attended by a professor of Physiology and incumbent director of the university’s directorate of advancement of the vice-chancellor’s office, Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello; a professor of Public Health and incumbent director of the university’s research and innovation unit, Olumuyiwa Odusanya, and a former chairperson of the university’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who was later appointed dean of students’ affairs, Kabir Akinyemi.
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The other two candidates who took part in the interview are a former deputy vice-chancellor and professor of food and industrial microbiology, Sena Bakre, and Omotayo Awofolu from the Namibia University of Science and Technology.
Four other applicants for the position included a former vice-chancellor of Crescent University, Abeokuta, Sherifdeen Tella; LASU’s immediate past deputy vice-chancellor in charge of academics, Olumuyiwa Noah; Aderemi Oki from Prairie View A&M University, Texas, United States of America, and Hakeem Tijani from National Open University. However, it was gathered that these candidates had earlier been screened out for their alleged failure to meet the requirements set for the applicants.
According to the report, the trio of Odusanya, Bakre and Akinyemi made the list of the three nominees presented to the governor through his Special Adviser on Education (SAE), Tokunbo Wahab.
It was learnt that while Odusanya scored 90 per cent to rank first, Bakre came second with 72.5 per cent while Akinyemi scored 68.8 per cent.
Akinyemi was said to be trailed by Olatunji-Bello with 68 per cent while Awofolu ranked fifth with 65 per cent score.
“The list has been forwarded to the SAE and I’m aware he already received it via a courier service on Tuesday morning. The young man, I mean the SAE ran away from Lagos over this thing because the pressure was very much. So, the list had to be ferried to him in London where he is presently,” Premium Times quotes a source as saying.
In the meantime, both the government and the university management have declined to speak on the processes.
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