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The Special Adviser to the Governor on Education , Tokunbo Wahab, confirmed the appointment through a statement released yesterday night by the Head, Public Affairs Unit, Adesoye Oyelami.
Wahab, while commending Olaleye, said that his wealth of experience and good managerial skills have assisted the government to set the new varsity on a good track.
He noted that posterity would judge him aright as one of the foundation head of management for the institution in the future.
The governor’s aide added that his efforts, while in office, would pave the way for the new administration to start on a good pedestal and move the school to an enviable height.
Meanwhile, Olaleye has therefore been directed by the state government to resume his duty post as the Rector for Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) and where he would be spending next three years and two months to complete his tenure with the institution.
He would be overseeing completion of the polytechnic system and exit with it while Odusanya would be expected to operate the varsity programmes going forward.
Until the appointment of Odusanya as the pioneer VC for LASUSTECH, he was a professor of Community and Primary Health in the Department of Community Health and Primary Health Care in the Faculty Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, Lagos State University (LASU)
It would be recalled that at the take-off of the new institution, the governor approved the appointment of the then substantive Rector of LASPOTECH, Olaleye, as the Ag. Vice-Chancellor of the University, pending the selection and appointment of the substantive Vice-Chancellor.
The new and substantive LASUSTECH Vice- Chancellor was born on the 8th of February, 1965. He is a Professor of Public and Community Health and a Fellow of the Medical College in Public Health and Community Medicine ( FMCPH). He holds Master of Public Health from University of Lagos (UNILAG
