Leadership Tussle: IPAC Berates Its Ex-Chairman For Taking Organisation To Court
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The
Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has berated the former national chairman of
the organization Engr Yabagi Sani for taking the new leadership of the body to
court after initially congratulating its emergence after the December 18, 2023
election in which he was rejected through the ballot.
Ogekalu
noted that on the 12th of December 2023, some progressive party leaders
resisted the attempt by Engr. Yabagi Sani to perpetuate himself in office
beyond the expiration of his tenure on the 13th of December 2023. He said in
vindication of those who resisted him and in furtherance of his desperation,
Engr. Yabagi Sani ran to court on the 28th of December 2023 to get a court
order stopping the inauguration of the newly elected IPAC National Executives
while the court at the same time directed the current IPAC Executives to
continue to run the affairs of the Council until the determination of the
suit.
He
said that the court may have been misled by Yabagi Sani to remain in power at
all cost for self aggrandizement and not for the good or love of the organisation.
“This is rightly so because an election was conducted on the 18th of December
2023 where new IPAC National Executives emerged in a transparent electoral
process covered by the media and Engr. Yabagi Sani who lost after scoring 8
votes against 10 votes scored by his opponent, Alh. Yusuf Dantalle hailed the
process as democracy in action and congratulated the winner. The question is
why the haste in running to the court after not only congratulating the winner
but filing a petition challenging the outcome of the election on the 22nd of
December 2023 at the IPAC Election Appeal Committee set up by his tyrannical
administration?”
He
said the court having been deceived by Engr. Yabagi Sani may not have been
aware that at the time when the order was granted on the 29th December 2023,
the tenure of Engr. Yabagi Sani already expired and new IPAC National
Executives led by Alh. Yusuf Dantalle had equally emerged on the 18th of
December 2023 and already started carrying out the mandate of their respective
offices after signing an oath of office the following day.
“Inauguration
of executives which is not known to IPAC Code of Conduct is just a ceremonial
event, hence asking the court to give him what he couldn't get through the
ballot only goes to show the desperation of a rejected egocentric tyrant
determined to superimpose himself on an organization that has moved on from his
miserable leadership.
“It is
also laughable that the only reason that Engr. Yabagi Sani gave for
irregularities in the just concluded election was the reduction of the
Electoral Committee to two instead of three that was originally composed. More
so, this is coming from a man who has been privileged to set up hundreds of
committees during his reign as the National chairman of IPAC without any of
such committees ever achieving 50%, which is what is required to form a quorum.
For the records, the third person in the electoral committee was unavoidably
absent due to an inevitable trip abroad and all decisions were communicated
appropriately. In any case, two out of three in a three man committee evidently
proved that a quorum was formed, especially when 50% is all that is required according
to the IPAC Code of Conduct,” he said.
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