NBA BAR WATCH
Came June 2nd 2008, the NBA Ikeja branch a.k.a Tigers’ branch will go to the polls to elect new leaders. From all indications, the elections may experience strange or unusual developments.
For the first time in the history of the branch, a sitting secretary who has a constitutional duty to verify the claims as to eligibility of candidates for elections, is himself a contestant in the coming June 2 2008 elections. That means that the sitting secretary, Mr. Beckley Abioye, who hopes to succeed Mr. Niyi Idowu as incumbent chairman will be verifying his own claims as well as those of his rivals.
In addition to this rather curious situation is the fact that there are strong accusations made by the incumbent financial secretary, Mr. Yinka Farounbi against the chairman and secretary that they have tampered with certain financial records of the branch, records which he claimed the duo of the chairman and secretary wrongly took custody of.
This serious allegation, which from credible information reaching the Squib was not debunked by the chairman and the Secretary at a hot executive committee meeting of the branch on Friday 2nd May 2008, is contained in a letter dated 2/5/08 sent by the Financial Secretary to the General Secretary in reply to the Secretary’s letter to him dated 29th April 2008, wherein the Secretary asked that the Financial Secretary make ‘available’ the “financial note books” of year 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 to him. Please see Bar Watch Exhibit 1 &2.
At the end of the meeting, Squib learnt that the General Secretary agreed to surrender to the Financial Secretary, but only on Monday the 5th May 2008, the financial records in his custody.
