From Fred Itua, Abuja
Members of the Licensed Electrical Contractors Association of Nigeria (LECAN) have called on their national president, John Ekere Etim, to maintain sanity and strictly abide by the provisions of the association’s laws.
This was contained in a recent letter written by their lawyers, Mbahchinwenduufere & Co and copied to Nigeria Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA), Abuja Electricity Distribution Comoany (AEDC), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the LECAN National Leader, Dele Akintola, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissioner (EFCC).
Members from different chapters of the association who wrote the letter, urged the officer to strictly adhere to their law.
The members, however, disowned a confidence vote in the president and the entire national executive council at a leadership summit on October 27 in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State, which according to them, was kicked against by participants.
The letter read: “Article 15 (D) (ix); that the secretariat be ordered to send a notice for National Conference Delegates for election and others – Article 6 (A); that the association’s audited account be made available at the conference – Rule 55 and; that he uses 60 days after the elapsing of his tenure to ensure the appointments made after his tenure and other arbitrary functions of the national executives remains ab initio nul and void. They therefore said that they wouldn’t hesitate to court, should the office of the president fail to do the needful, as stipulated in their constitution.”
However, in a recent letter LECAN’s counsels, O. U. Orji, M.A. Gwoza, Benjamin Ogbonnaya, M. Akanbi and others, wrote to the aggrieved members’ counsels, said the vote of confidence passed in the national executives was strictly done in line with the association’s laws.
Debunking the claim that the vote of confidence was unconstitutionally done on leadership summit, they maintained that it was done at a Leadership Retreat/National Delegates Conference, in line with Article 6 (b) (ii) of the LECAN’s law.