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Professor Folashade Ogunsola of the College of Medicine and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Development Services at the University of Lagos has been elected by the Senate as the acting Vice Chancellor (VC) of the university.

At an emergency meeting convened at the university today, Ogunsola polled 135 votes while Professor Ben Oghojafor secured 31 votes. One vote was voided.

The Senate of the University of Lagos had gone ahead to convene the emergency meeting despite the contrary notice given by the Secretary to the suspended Council, Mr Azeez Oladejo, that the council had not convened any Senate meeting.

Oladejo belongs to the camp of the suspended Dr Wale Babalakin-led governing council.

President Muhammadu Buhari as the Visitor to the University, had asked the Senate of the Institution to appoint an Acting VC, amid a bitter war that followed the purported sack of the VC, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe by the Chairman of the governing council, Dr Babalakin.

The President asked Babalakin and Ogundipe to recuse themselves from their duties, and he ordered the acting VC appointed by the Babalakin-led council to leave the seat.

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