Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) has insisted that due process was followed in the removal of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as the institution’s Vice-Chancellor.
Prof. Ogundipe was appointed as the University’s VC in November 2017 and his removal was on the grounds of financial impropriety and abuse of office.
Babalakin was quoted to have said on the crisis:
“The confusion is that most people don’t how governing council operates. There was full compliance of the law in the removal of Prof Ogundipe.
The issue has been lingering on for a long time. Series of attempt were made to reconcile but the VC was not forthcoming… a focal minority, who are benefiting from the corruption in UNILAG which has become cultural.
Due process was followed in the removal of Ogundipe. After the council committee indicted the VC, he wrote his defence in May and spoke for one hour. His sack was done in accordance with UNILAG law.
The votes were counted with each council members’ comments. Everyone voted, they didn’t just vote but they made comments and I read out all the comments.
Go and read the law, what the law said is that when a Vice Chancellor is removed and you have a complaint, you will write an appeal to the visitor. He cannot on his own, declare that he has not been removed as Ogundipe has done. He cannot on his own confront his employers. In law, he has resigned because if you challenge your employer and you are still in his employment, you have actually left.
“The weakness of Ogundipe is that his legal advisers have not done a very thorough job. There is no stalemate and there is no chaos in the university because the law would take its course. It is not in the place of the removed VC to say he has not been removed. He cannot be a judge in his own court.
“He cannot on his own declare that he has not been removed. He cannot on his own decide to confront his employer.”

Babalakin, a unilag alumnus went on to say:
“Professor Ogundipe has been looting the university and looting it recklessly, that’s the plain truth that we should not hide. There is misappropriation and there is direct looting of the university. All attempts were made to put an end to this.
The former VC spent N49 million renovating his house. Under the process, this has to be done with approval from the council, he sought no approval. To cover-up, he gave the bursar N41 million to renovate his official residence. The official residence of the bursar can be built for N41 million from scratch, this was what was spent on renovation.”
Source @https://africanbard.com/2020/08/15/unilag-babalakin-insists-that-due-process-in-the-removal-of-the-vc-was-followed/