Adebisi Onanuga
THE crisis in the Lagos State chapter RTEAN has assumed a new dimension as the caretaker committee of the association has declared the purported elections conducted on Tuesday by the embattled chairman of the association Mohammed Musa to elect new executives as illegal and of no effect.
The Secretary of the Committee, Augustine Akhigbe made this declaration at a press conference held at the secretariat of the association at Odogunyan, Lagos.
“The only recognized leaders of the association is the Caretaker Committee, appointed by the National Executive Committee (NEC) at its September 13, 2019 meeting, is Alhaji Suleman Onabanjo a.k.a. Ajishakin and I, Augustine Akhigbe as the Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of the association, until the election is conducted in line with the constitution of the association.”
He urged the state government, agencies to dissociate from the embattled chairman who he insisted is trying to force himself into office against all odds and in spite of having spent seven years in office, excluding another two years once served as a member of an earlier caretaker committee.
The embattled chairman was alleged to have within three days opened and closed nominations and returned himself to office Tuesday as chairman of the RTEAN in the state.
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But Akhigbe told journalists that Mohammed does not have the power to conduct elections for new state executives, nor to get himself re-elected into office, having been restrained by September 20, 2019 subsisting order of Justice Sanusi Kado of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) along with six others, from parading themselves as officers in a suit no NICN/ABJ/275/2019 filed against him and others by the national RTEAN.
He said the order of the NICN has not been set aside.
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