A front line candidate for the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA Board of Trustees, BoT election, Otunba Abdulazeez Babatunde Mukaila has said that contrary to opinions in some quarters, he is not running for the association’s BoT slot with the intent to become the Board Chairman or Secretary.
Mukaila who stated this in a chat with newsmen on Tuesday disclosed that the only thing motivating him to vie for the position was service delivery and the urge to continue to contribute his quota to the growth and development of ANLCA.
Citing Section 13 of the ANLCA constitution, Mukaila who is the immediate past Sole Administrator and National Secretary of the association observed that a person shall be elected a Trustee of the association at the AGM of the association duly convened for that purpose provided that the number of Trustees shall always be nine.
Going further, he maintained that people going into the Board were of equal status even as he insisted that the election of Board Chairman and Secretary was the internal arrangement of the elected members of the Board for ease of administration as it was not a creation of the association’s constitution.
“What makes you a Board member is what equally makes this person a Board member. It is when you people gather that you now say let this one become our secretary and that doesn’t make him a superior member because it is your attitude that makes you a member of that organization. This constitution does not recognize any position in the Board.
“And I am not running to be anything, I just want to contribute my quota to the growth and development of ANLCA”, he said.
Asked whether he is disturbed by the active roles being played by the close aides of ANLCA National President in driving the campaigns of the Group of Nine Like Minds, he said, “I am not disturbed at all. I would want to see a situation when I deem it necessary to call for a meeting and invite all those aides to my own meeting, I want to see them say no. That is when I will take a position that, yes, something is in the offing. And as I said, it’s not about crowd, it is about who has a voting right, who are the Directors?
“So, I don’t see the President as someone who has taken sides. I believe he wants a very credible and competent election. Let’s give it to him, his aides, some of them, are Directors of their companies, if they decide to espouse some groups, or some aspirants, they are exercising their rights.
“The President has one voting right, any of his aides that you see anywhere has one voting right but I want to believe they are exercising their rights. Until I said, Mr. President’s aide, I am having a meeting somewhere, I am inviting you, even if they refuse to come, it’s still their right. So, I am not perturbed at all.”
Photo: Otunba Abdulazeez Babatunde Mukaila, ANLCA BoT hopeful.
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