Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Dele Belgore (SAN) yesterday said President Goodluck Jonathan did not follow due process in  renaming University of Lagos (UNILAG) Moshood Abiola University, Lagos. 

 Belgore said Jonathan got it absolutely wrong, adding that it is a desecration of a national institution.

He noted that the President has politicised academia.

He said: “There are procedures to follow. You do not just get up and announce the renaming of an institution created by law. Since the law says that the institution shall be called the University of Lagos, the law establishing the institution has to be changed before such an announcement.

“If there was broad enough consultation, I believe he will probably not have fallen into this kind of error. A protest that causes inconvenience to the general public should be generally condemned, but looking at it from the protesters’ point of view, they have got to be heard. If they do not create inconvenience for the public, nobody is going to hear them.

“The question is, is it really what we need at this time? UNILAG will be 50 years in a short while and the late Vice-Chancellor will also be buried today. Let’s even assume it is the right time to change the name, is it the way to go about it?

“So, the action itself is provocative and one that has given rise to the protest.” 

-Punch

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