Dr. Wale Babalakin the Pro-chancellor and chairman of Governing Council of the University of Lagos has resigned amidst the crisis rocking the institution. 

The resignation came a few hours after the Visitation Panel headed by Prof. Tukur submitted its report to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu.

 Mr Babalakin’s resigned as the pro-chancellor of the troubled institution just after the panel set up by the president submitted its report.

The panel was set up after an August 12 emergency meeting of the university’s governing council, led by Mr Babalakin, announced the removal of the institution’s substantive vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.

Mr Ogundipe rejected his removal as illegal, thus worsening the crisis in the federal university for whom the president is the Visitor.

Consequent upon the controversy, Mr Buhari asked Mr Babalakin and Mr Ogundipe to step aside from the offices.

The president also set up the seven-member visitation panel led by former vice-chancellor of Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State, Tukur Sa’ad.

The panel was to look into the crisis rocking the university and the allegations levelled against Mr Ogundipe by the governing council.

The committee submitted its report to the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, Thursday without divulging the content.

In his resignation letter, Mr Babalakin faulted the membership of the visitation panel.

Babalakin’s resignation dated September 2020 was addressed to Adamu and entitled: ‘Letter of resignation’, said there were too many vested interests in UNILAG case, who were not approaching the issues objectively.

He also added that the visitation panel was raised to exonerate the Vice-Chancellor and implicate the Pro-Chancellor.