The reinstated Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has resumed office.

Ogundipe was reinstated by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, saying that his removal did not follow due process.

Speaking at the university Senate Building foyer on Thursday, November 12, 2020, Ogundipe thanked Buhari for reinstating him.

He urged members of staff to be united in order to move the institution forward.” Let us all be united. It is not about academic or non academic staff; it is about UNILAG. Let us all work together and allow peace in this institution,” he said.

However, Hamman Tukur Saad, Chairman of the Federal Government visitation panel constituted to probe the crisis rocking the university, has kicked against the decision of the Federal Government to reinstate Ogundipe.

Saad, a Professor of Architecture at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in Kaduna State, in a letter dated November 10, 2020, addressed to Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to the President, disclosed that he only agreed to sign the panel’s final report on the ground that it would be reviewed by Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, who is the Chancellor of UNILAG.

He also claimed that the panel’s report was not only one-sided as majority of its members were biased to Ogundipe, but also that the terms of reference were unfair to Wale Babalakin, the institution’s former Pro-Chancellor, who presided over the Governing Council, which removed the Vice Chancellor on August 12, 2020.