Folasade Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology on Mondy emerged the acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos.
She got 81 percent of the votes cast in an election held by members of the varsity’s Senate to choose an acting Vice-Chancellor.
By this feat, she becomes the first female VC of the University of Lagos, which was founded in 1962.
Aged 62, she was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development Services at the UNILAG before her emergence.
Ogunsola got 135 votes, while another contestant, Professor Prof. Ben Oghojafor got 31. A total of 167 professors voted at the meeting. One vote was voided.
Chairman of the Senate Emergency Committee, Prof. Chioma Agomuo, also announced the result to journalists after the election.
The meeting of the university’s Senate followed the Federal Government’s order to the body to convene a meeting to resolve the leadership crisis that bedeviled the institution since last week following a controversial removal of the former VC, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
His removal was announced in Abuja by the chairman of UNILAG’s governing council, Wale Babalakin. But the announcement sparked protests from the university’s Senate, the academic staff, and other workers’ unions.
The government had asked both the former VC and Babalakin to step aside to allow the Senate choose an acting VC.
Agomuo last week led a delegation of UNILAG’s Senate to the Presidency, the Federal Ministry of Education, and the National University Commission, to present the position of that body on the removal of the former VC.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, she had vehemently opposed the process of selecting the acting VC, Prof Theophilus Soyombo, saying it did not follow the approved procedure.
Agomuo said an acting VC must be chosen from among the three Deputy Vice-Chancellors of the institution.
Soyombo stepped down last week.
