UniLag Law Student Takes Jonathan, AGF To Court Over Renaming of UniLag.

Mr. Oluyinka Oyeniji, a Lagos based lawyer and a Masters Degree sudent of University of Lagos has dragged the President and the Attorney-General of the Federation to court over the renaming of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University last Tuesday.

The suit which was filed yesterday evening in the Federal High Court in Ikoyi with suit number; FHC/L/CS/575/2012, was requesting the honourable
Court's interpretation of the 1967 Act establishing the University of Lagos.

In the suit, Mr. Oyeniji requested the court to interpret four questions to wit:

-Whether the President is empowered under the University of Lagos Act 1962 amended in 1967 and as contained in Chapter U9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 as amended, to change the name of the University;

-Whether the action of the President by declaring in his broadcast that the name of the University be changed is ultra - vires the provisions of the Act establishing the University and therefore null and void and of no effect;

-Whether the action of the President by declaring in his broadcast that the name of the University be changed is a breach of the doctrine of separation of powers which Nigeria practices under its Presidential System of Government; and

-Whether the Honourable Court should, in the circumstances reverse the name of the University to its original state being the name with which the Act establishing it provided for in its long title, short title, interpretation section and the entire body of the Act.

However, in an interview with Chairman of ASUU, University of Lagos Chapter, he, while lambasting the President's act in renaming the University,  reiterated that "it is wrong to do a right thing wrongly".