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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Should the National Electricity Power Authority be privatized? Yes No Indifferent View results NULGE Crisis Deepens, President Expelled From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja, 12.05.2004 The crisis rocking the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) deepened at the weekend as the National Executive Council of the Union announced the expulsion of its National President, Dr. Deji Akinwalere. This decision was taken by the NEC in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the body in Abuja at the weekend. The NEC also approved the election of Chief C. A. Aghara as the new National President of NULGE with effect from December 4, 2004 while Alhaji Bashiru Ajibade was elected as the new National Vice President (representing the Southwest zone of the Union). But in a swift reaction at a press conference yesterday Akinwalere described his removal as unconstitutional and meant to denigrate the office of the National President and abuse of NULGE constitution. The communiqué noted that Akinwalere had no constitutional powers to send the General Secretary or Deputy General Secretary on compulsory leave. Akinwalere emphasised that the crux of the matter was his invitation to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, to embark on investigative auditing of the National Secretariat, which has not been audited since 1997 according to a letter from its internal auditor Obiora Okafor and Co. Akinwalere also pointed out that his decision to send Salam on compulsory leave was as a result of threat of de-registration from the Registrar of Trade Unions over NULGE's account. He insisted that he wants his tenure to be probed at least for a clean bill of health and in line with the principles of NULGE project - probity watch. "I do not expect any Unionist who acts as watchdog over government activities to oppose probity, accountabilit and transparency in the operation of union affairs", he said. Akinwalere further stated that he never approved the convening of any NEC meeting and neither was any date fixed at the previous NEC meeting. "Therefore, yesterday's meeting was illegal, unconstitutional, null and void. I was never informed of any meeting and immediately I was aware (24 hours before the meeting) I went on air to disassociate myself from it. The purported NEC meeting was a serious violation of Rule 8 (iv) of NULGE Constitution as there was no matter that requires urgent attention. Even if there is a need for an Extra-ordinay NEC meeting as provided for in NULGE constitution Rule 8 (vi), yesterday's meeting did not conform with the provision of convening such meeting.         REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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