STOP ACTING, PARADING YOURSELVES AS
ANA’S SPOKESMEN, GROUP WARNS SULAIMAN BANMA AND DADA KOREDE
The immediate past National
Publicity Secretary (South) of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Wole
Adedoyin who is also a member of the Bring Back ANA Movement has warned the duo
of Mallam
Sulaiman Banma and Mr. Dada Korede Sola to stop
parading themselves as spokesmen of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), insisting
that ANA is yet to get a new national EXCO.
According
to Wole Adedoyin “I am surprised that Mallam Sulaiman Banma, the immediate past
Chairman of Niger ANA whose tenure BM Dzukogi once described as empty and demoted,
and Mr. Dada Korede Sola who did not
record any meaningful achievement while he was acting as ANA Ogun Chairman are
acting and parading themselves as ANA Spokesmen. The duo of Mallam Sulaiman
Banma and Mr. Dada Korede Sola could
not speak for the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) or use its logo and
franchise without the authority and permission of the members of the incorporated
trustees of the Association.
Wole Adedoyin recalled
the release of the Prof. Jerry Agada-led committee earlier mandated by the ANA
Advisory Council and the board of trustees to conduct an Emergency General
Meeting and elections of a valid new national executive council which was to
hold in Makurdi on the 28th of March 2020 before it was postponed due to the
Coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world. In the committee's release dated 26th
March 2020 postponing the EGM / elections and signed by its Chairman, it was
stated thus: " the committee wishes to remind all members, friends ,
associates and partners of ANA that for now, the Association has no elected
executive committee until such a time when the election being postponed would
have been conducted and those elected duly sworn in . Therefore, anyone who
parades him/ herself as an elected national official of ANA should be
ignored."
“The duo of Mallam Sulaiman Banma and Mr. Dada Korede Sola are mainly card carrying members of ANA
in both Niger and Ogun states respectively, therefore, any person acting or
parading himself as spokesman of ANA out of the two is an impostor and such a
person should be arrested for impersonation. I urge the public and members of
the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) to disregard any publication or press
statement made by any of them.”
Wole Adedoyin finally urged all media houses to stop giving the duo of Mallam Sulaiman Banma and Mr. Dada Korede Sola any media support or assistance.
