The LASU community was shocked to see newspaper publications on Friday 12th March, 2021 about a group of Professors who call themselves the “Liberators” granting a press conference alongside the renegade impostors ASUU-LASU Executives who are themselves unknown to the National body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
No one needs to teleguide the Governor of Lagos State & Visitor to Lagos State University on who to appoint as the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University. It is the Governor’s constitutional right to use his discretion in appointing anyone he deems fit to become the Vice-Chancellor.
What is most baffling about the press conference is the calibre of Professors who addressed it? Prof. Adeleke Fakoya, the Coordinator of the Liberators, is an established plagiarist. Research has revealed how he got involved in plagiarism and academic fraud. Research findings show up to 93% plagiarized input in one of his published texts, Resources on Linguistics (2004) before he was promoted to the position of Professor in 2013.

Prof. Abiodun Akinpelu is not new to scandals in LASU. Akinpelu who has not attended classes to teach students in the last 5 years in LASU lied about a work experience at the University of Ilorin which led to his direct employment to Lecturer I in LASU. The discovery of this fraud resulted in his facing the University’s Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee for several years. The matter was dropped at the intervention of some eminent people. Akinpelu also had a scandalous affair with a female staff of the Faculty of Education. Threats and bullying were involved in the matter.

It is not surprising that Fakoya and Akinpelu fronted the press conference. They are both Fagbohun-Ninalowo errand boys. They have been covered up severally by Fagbohun as agents of the last University administration. Despite repeated letters to Fagbohun about the level of academic fraud and plagiarism perpetrated by Fakoya, Fagbohun deliberately ignored this wrongdoing and merely looked the other way. It is therefore not surprising that these people would want a continuation of the Fagbohun-Ninalowo agenda by dictating to the Governor what he is constitutionally empowered to do.

These “Liberators” are the dark agents of LASU. Their intention is to continue to keep LASU Staff in perpetual and constant fear that occurred throughout the Fagbohun Led-administration’s supposed “peace” of the graveyard. LASU cannot continue to condone the primitive concealment of their incompetence and wickedness. It is high time that LASU cleaned up its dark agents.