By YANGE IKYAA
The Board of Trustees of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has warned against what it called the proposed illegal inauguration of parallel National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday, January in Abuja.
Mr Tunji Adeniji, who the Secretary of IPMAN Board of Trustees, gave the warning yesterday in a statement, against the backdrop of a purported invitation by Engineer the Sanusi Abdul-Fari-led faction of the association to the inauguration of NEC members.
“Any attempt to install another set of persons as NEC of IPMAN is null and void because the matter has been settled by the Supreme Court”
Adeniji said that the BoT chairman, led by Alhaji Abdulkadri Aminu, has notified security agencies of the purported illegal inauguration of NEC by some groups of individuals.
He said that the current Board of Trustees (BoT) of IPMAN has received information that there are plans by a faction of IPMAN to install another leadership for IPMAN on Jan 18.
He said the move was a flagrant violation of the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in Abuja on Dec. 14, 2018.
Adeniji said the judgment read by Justice Musa Muhammad in suit No. SC15/2015, recognized Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo and Alhaji Danladi Pasali as President and Secretary of IPMAN respectively, with other elected executives, adding that the tenure of the executive would expire on December 14, 2023.
The BoT secretary added that IPMAN had already zoned the next president of the association to the North West.
His words: “Any attempt to install another set of persons as NEC of IPMAN is null and void because the matter has been settled by the Supreme Court, which is the final arbiter of justice in Nigeria.
“The Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, and the Inspector General of Police, Mr Usman Baba, have already directed that the judgment must be complied with. We are, therefore, calling on the security agencies to apprehend those behind the move to forestall breakdown of law and order.
“It must be noted that IPMAN as an association has only one registered Board of Trustee (BOT) and registered constitution with corporate affairs commission.”