ANA NASARAWA ELDERS ON ANA CRISIS (1)
Good morning our good people on this platform. The
Nasarawa State Branch of ANA has had enough turbulence in recent times. Its
crisis and inactivity and stagnation informed the National Executive Council to
sacking our entire Executive Council giving way to the appointment of A Sole
Administrator to run the affairs of the Association with the Mandate to rule
and democratically Conduct an election within three months. The Nationally
Appointed Sole Administrator was Prof. Idris Amali. Out of the six State
Branches' Executive Council dissolved, it was Nasarawa State Sole Administrator
with the support of its members that reconstituted its Executive Council within
the stipulated three months dot. No other dissolved State Executive Council in
the Federation acted the way NASARAWA ANA did by speedily reconstituting it's
Executive Council.
This action led to the establishment of our current cabinet of Mall Dedere. With support from members, brief life was returned to ANA NASARAWA STATE BRANCH. It was short lived as the ANA NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS swept state activities and the subsequent collapse of the highly advertised ENUGU ANA CONVENTION. The Fall of Enugu brought in the interest group's parading the branches with electric speed to constitute a National Executive Council. That goal was achieved by the meeting held in Abuja made up principally of some Branch Chairmen. From Abuja, a National Executive Council emerged and proclaimed as ANA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. This is still a matter of contention.
Since the fall or rise of ANA from the Abuja Campaign, our Branch has been somehow queit with grumbling here and. there regarding the legality or otherwise of our Chairman or his Executive attending the Abuja Meeting to elect a National Executive Council without the Branch Congressional Backing.
Since then, the NASARAWA ANA WHATSAPP PLATFORM has been used as launching pad to promote the activities of Abuja Chairmen elected National Executive Council not without resistance. This writer privately served our Chairman well articulated memos before and after the Abuja Meeting. In my last but long memo to the Chairman, I provided and charted the way forward for our Branch to pick up after we have locked down the lockdown. One of my recommendations is what our Secretary has come out with in his latest release.
My appeal:
1. This Branch has for long suffered and it has become necessary at this point to lay down all instruments of distraction and self interest.
2. Not everyone on this platform would take delight in participating in matters that undermine our collective objectives. The main objective is to promote literary creativity and others. How much of this have we done?
3. Avoid using this platform as a campaign ground for further circulation of contentious circulars on an established ANA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL that will eventually generate further arguments and dissolve our resolve as a union to encourage literary development in the state and beyond. On this, my two memos to our Chairman are useful and handy.
4. To avoid subdijuce , let me inform the house that the Abuja Constituted ANA and allied or related matters are subjects of litigation in a competent court of jurisdiction.
4. Those noted for posting contentious circular on the Abuja election should be advised to replace them with creative works that will elicit literary creativity in this branch as this not a political platform(Not a directive but a kind suggestion)
5. Let's face our set goals enshrined in our National Constitution. We have virtually done very little as a branch. I am thinking of quiet but good poet like Mohammed Ohitoto whose poetry some years back I had the opportunity of perusing his intriguing pieces be promoted and many others in this house. The Chika, the Benjamin Orjimba, the blossoming poetry of Dr. Blossom, the Mercy novelette to be followed by another birth, the Giza growing poetry, the Ruth Akwanga Axis of short story teller and Ben Tex. Let's leave out: Amali, Albisak, Umaisha, Ogezi and Egya for now.
This action led to the establishment of our current cabinet of Mall Dedere. With support from members, brief life was returned to ANA NASARAWA STATE BRANCH. It was short lived as the ANA NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS swept state activities and the subsequent collapse of the highly advertised ENUGU ANA CONVENTION. The Fall of Enugu brought in the interest group's parading the branches with electric speed to constitute a National Executive Council. That goal was achieved by the meeting held in Abuja made up principally of some Branch Chairmen. From Abuja, a National Executive Council emerged and proclaimed as ANA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. This is still a matter of contention.
Since the fall or rise of ANA from the Abuja Campaign, our Branch has been somehow queit with grumbling here and. there regarding the legality or otherwise of our Chairman or his Executive attending the Abuja Meeting to elect a National Executive Council without the Branch Congressional Backing.
Since then, the NASARAWA ANA WHATSAPP PLATFORM has been used as launching pad to promote the activities of Abuja Chairmen elected National Executive Council not without resistance. This writer privately served our Chairman well articulated memos before and after the Abuja Meeting. In my last but long memo to the Chairman, I provided and charted the way forward for our Branch to pick up after we have locked down the lockdown. One of my recommendations is what our Secretary has come out with in his latest release.
My appeal:
1. This Branch has for long suffered and it has become necessary at this point to lay down all instruments of distraction and self interest.
2. Not everyone on this platform would take delight in participating in matters that undermine our collective objectives. The main objective is to promote literary creativity and others. How much of this have we done?
3. Avoid using this platform as a campaign ground for further circulation of contentious circulars on an established ANA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL that will eventually generate further arguments and dissolve our resolve as a union to encourage literary development in the state and beyond. On this, my two memos to our Chairman are useful and handy.
4. To avoid subdijuce , let me inform the house that the Abuja Constituted ANA and allied or related matters are subjects of litigation in a competent court of jurisdiction.
4. Those noted for posting contentious circular on the Abuja election should be advised to replace them with creative works that will elicit literary creativity in this branch as this not a political platform(Not a directive but a kind suggestion)
5. Let's face our set goals enshrined in our National Constitution. We have virtually done very little as a branch. I am thinking of quiet but good poet like Mohammed Ohitoto whose poetry some years back I had the opportunity of perusing his intriguing pieces be promoted and many others in this house. The Chika, the Benjamin Orjimba, the blossoming poetry of Dr. Blossom, the Mercy novelette to be followed by another birth, the Giza growing poetry, the Ruth Akwanga Axis of short story teller and Ben Tex. Let's leave out: Amali, Albisak, Umaisha, Ogezi and Egya for now.
Idris Amali.
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