Update: BOT Invokes “Doctrine of Necessity” To Save Association, Warn Members to Stop alliance with expired Administration

Update: BOT Invokes “Doctrine of Necessity” To Save Association, Warn Members to Stop alliance with expired Administration

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The Board of Trustees, BOT headed by Dr Sai’d Mijinyawa as the Chairman of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS has invokes the Doctrine of Necessity to end the reign of Chief Yomi Otubela whose administration is alleged to originally have expired on the 22nd November, 2023.

 

TEC News correspondent report that the BOT action is in connection with the inability of the last National President, Chief Yomi Otubela to put adequate and proper plan in place to handover to a new elected leadership as his administration ends on 22nd November, 2023 and to avoid administrative upheavals within the association.

 

This is contained in the Press Statement signed by the BOT Chairman, Dr Sai’d Mijinyawa and other 9 BOT members of the Association as released in a Press Conference organized by the BOTs on Wednesday 22nd November 2023.

“Following the expiration of the Chief Yomi Otubela-led administration, today 22nd November, 2023, without adequate and proper plan for handover, and in order for the Board of Trustees of NAPPS Nigeria to save the Association from untold administrative upheavals, the “Doctrine of Necessity” is hereby invoked and the following action plans rolled out to midwife a new administration to manage the affairs of the Association and to conduct credible elections within 120 days or 4 months”.

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The content also include an instruction for members to stop an alliance with the expired Otubela Led-administration.

“UNIFIED EXAMS is hereby put on hold forthwith. You will be notified on the next line of action with respect to any exams that may be organized by NAPPS NIGERIA.

You will be informed of any activity or business of NAPPS you can engage in very soon”.

 

Full Text of the Press Release bellow:

 

RC NO.: 25210

Incorporated Trustees of

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROPRIETORS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS

22ND NOVEMBER 2023

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROPRIETORS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF NIGERIA (NAPPS) ON ACTION PLANS FOR THE TRANSITION TO THE INCOMING NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Following the expiration of the Chief Yomi Otubela-led administration, today 22nd November, 2023, without adequate and proper plan for handover, and in order for the Board of Trustees of NAPPS Nigeria to save the Association from untold administrative upheavals, the “Doctrine of Necessity” is hereby invoked and the following action plans rolled out to midwife a new administration to manage the affairs of the Association and to conduct credible elections within 120 days or 4 months:

A Member of the National Electoral Committee, NECOM will come from each of the six (6) Zones. The Committee shall be headed by a Member of the Board of Trustees.

The committee is to use the 2017 NAPPS Constitution to draw the time table, announce election dates, screen candidates and conduct elections.

Units, Wards, Local Government Chapters, States and Zones that have conducted their elections prior to these directives are not affected, but must inform the NECOM in writing. The NECOM will also draw up the time table for the National elections.

The Board of Trustees also hereby announce the setting up of a Transitional Committee with a Member each from the Six (6) Zones. The Transition Committee is to be headed by the Chairman, Board of Trustees.

The Transition Committee shall be responsible for the day- to-day running of the Association pending the transition period of four (4) months

-All the Members of the two Committees, as indicated above, must have no political ambition in the next Administration which they are to midwife.

-The two Committees have one hundred and twenty (120) days or March 22, 2024 within which to carry out their assignments.

 

 

ACTION PLAN SUMMARY:

The Registered Board of Trustees of NAPPS NIGERIA is by this Press Conference mandating all members of NAPPS NATION WIDE as follows:

All LGAs, States and Zones are hereby instructed not to pay any monies to any National account of NAPPS from today. You will be notified of the account to use within few days either for exams, annual dues, debate, quiz etc.

 

All activities and business engaged-in by the Chief Yomi Otubela-led administration are hereby put on hold. No NAPPS member should engage in any activity not approved by the BOT hence forth.

NAPPS UNIFIED EXAMS is hereby put on hold forthwith. You will be notified on the next line of action with respect to any exams that may be organized by NAPPS NIGERIA.

You will be informed of any activity or business of NAPPS you can engage in very soon.

For the LOAN from FCMB, we direct that members should stay further transactions on this, pending the time the BOT will be furnished with the Memorandum of Understanding signed on behalf of the Association by the Chief Yomi Otubela-led administration. It is painful to inform you that we do not know anything about FCMB and the loan you are accessing from them.

As the BOT Chairman has informed you in his voice note of the early hours of 22nd

November 2023, the following are the members of the Electoral Committee:

 

S/N

NAME

STATE

ZONE

PHONE

NUMBER

 

1

DR. FRANCISCA CHINWE OLIKEZE(CHAIRMAN)

ANAMBRA

SE

08033122191

 

2

DR. HABEEB YAQUEEN

(SECRETARY)

KOGI

NC

08025013503

 

3. DR ADEYEMI KAYODE OYO

SW

08033351196

 

4. DR. ABDULLAHI TKUR

ZAMFARA

NW

08069581011

 

5. ALH SHUAIBU ABUBAKAR

BORNO

NE

08065272613

 

6. PST. AMB. CHRISTOPHER

IKECHUKWU INEH

IMO

SE

08068168409

 

7. ENOBONG UBAHA

AKWAIBOM

SS

-They have been mandated to conduct a credible election within 120days.

-They are to publish the electoral guidelines on or before fourteen (14) days from today.

TRANSITION COMMITTEE.

In like manner, the following are members of the Transition Committee:

 

S/N

COMMITTEE MEMBER

STATE

ZONE

PHONE NO.

 

1. MIJINYAWA SAID (CHAIRMAN)

KANO

NORTH-

WEST

 

2. ELDER CHARLES UMEKWE

 

NORTH-

CENTRAL

08035992582

 

3. CHIEF DERICK EJIDAKINRO

ONDO

SW

08033926481

 

4. M.M ADAMU

KANO

NW

08037033337

 

5. HON ERNEST IKE UGWU

ENUGU

SE

08030703236

 

6. VICTOR GREEN

RIVERS

SS

 

7. ALH. MOHAMMED MUSA

WAMBILMI

BORNO

NE

08158859590

 

In conclusion, we appreciate your patience and understanding of the current unpleasant and avoidable incidence deliberately created by some self-seeking members of the outgone

administration. Very soon the association will certainly come out of this trying period.

 

 

Thank you

DR. MIJINYAWA SAID: CHAIRMAN _

 

PRINCE SAKIRU RAJI

 

DR. FRANCISCA CHINWE OLIKEZE

 

SAMIRA JIBIR (Ph.D.)

 

HAUWA ABARSHI

 

OBONG EDET INWANG UDOH _

 

COMRADE JUDE IDAKPO

 

CHIEF GBENGA OLOWIE

 

HAJIYA WAKILBE ASHE _

 

CHIEF AWA

 

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