The National Board of Trustees and the Lagos State chapter of the Motor Mechanics and Technicians Association of Nigeria have passed a ‘vote of no confidence in the leadership of the National President of the association, Alhaji Akin Oseni and members of the National Executive Council.
This decision was taken during a stakeholders’ meeting at the association’s secretariat in Lagos.
The meeting, attended by over 90 per cent of members of the National Board of Trustees as well as the chairman and representatives of branches and divisions of the Lagos chapter, came up with a communique containing allegations against Oseni’s leadership.
According to the communique signed by the Chairman, Board of Trustees, MOMTAN, Pa S.O. Solagbade and Secretary, Pa A. J. Odusanya, Oseni was accused of allegedly including his personal agenda aimed at merging MOMTAN with the National Automobile Technicians Association of Nigeria, which they alleged he expressed in his speech at the MOMTAN symposium in Abuja on October 27, 2016: his single handed funding of an illegal MOMTAN Technical School without the consent of the chapters’ executives and trustees: his conduct of running the association like his personal endeavour without regard to members of its Board of Trustees, of which he is also a member.
Others are his non-disclosure of the numerical numbers of chapters of the association, bypassing the Lagos State and other national chapters to collect annual dues from members at branches’ level and setting aside the function of the National Delegates’ Conference to unilaterally pick Prince S. O. Adedeji as acting secretary general from 2014 to date.
The communique said members of the association’s Board of Trustees had earlier invited Oseni for a meeting aimed at drawing his attention to the allegations against him and a truce which he cleverly shunned and that the meeting still held in his absence and it was there the idea of a ‘vote of no confidence’ was muted.
“Considering the above anomalies, the trustees, patrons and elders present at the meeting held on April 11 declared lack of confidence in the administration of Oseni and other representatives of the association in the National Executive Council.” the communique added.
But Oseni said: “I don’t have any reaction to what they might be doing. What we have done is to dissolve their executive body based on the allegations we had against them and we have appointed a caretaker committee that is already acting in capacity and giving the national body feedback”.
“I remain the President of the registered national body of mechanics and technicians and not of the Lagos Chapter, so let them in Lagos put up any reactions they wish, I am not moved”, Oseni said.
The association’s National Executive Council had published recently in some national newspapers that it had suspended the Lagos State Executives for alleged financial impropriety and the conduct of an illegal election to retain leadership in the state, a move perceived by the respondents as engineered by Oseni as a ploy to downplay impending face-off with him and his leadership style.