A member of the Board of Trustee (BoT) of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA); Aare Sanni Shittu has explained that it would be improper of former BoT members to conduct elections into the leadership of the board on the eve of the send forth party for the former national president, Prince Olayiwola Shittu.
Sanni Shittu who gave this explanation in a chat with Shipping Position Daily maintained that it would be disrespectful to conduct election into the leadership of the BoT the same night they are planning a send forth for a president who had served the association meritoriously for eight years.
“The tenure is six years and our tenure ended last year and on the eve of the send forth of our former national president, they said that the election must hold. Which of course some of us who felt that it was not justified didn’t buy the idea”
“If we want to conduct our elections, we must have to prepare for it which of course we asked for the date to be shifted and not to be held that night, that was the course of the whole thing. Our chairman who had served meritoriously for eight years needed not to be sent parking like that”, he stated.
Shittu said that when the Board members kicked against conducting the election that same day, some of the members still went on with the election.
“And they went somewhere and held that election and declared themselves as officers of the board and that has been the issue”
Also speaking on the accusation by a member of the BoT, Sir, Ernest Elochukwu that some members of the BoT wrote to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CA) for the files of the association to be kept is caveat, he denied the accusation saying that Elochukwu must have been quoted out of context.
“He must have been quoted out of context if he ever mentioned my name, because there is nothing like that. We were nine in the BoT, but with the advent of Tony Iju becoming the president, we became eight”
He however added that they have started the processes of resolving the crisis.
“So for him to say someone wrote a letter to CAC for the files to be kept in the caveat, I don’t know what he is talking about. Quote me and I say I am still standing by what I said that he must have been quoted out of context, he will never mention my name. Like I said earlier, it is a family affair and we are about resolving it”, he concluded.
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