By Yinka Dada, JP
Mr President, I am compelled by the urgent desire to keep our long standing relationship afloat, robust and inspiring as ever in writing you this short message.
Let me appreciate your sheer respect for me as a person and all that we have both had to work with in our over 16 years friendship. I hope this will continue.
For more than a year now, you have held sway as the President of the largest student movement in Africa, a feat achieved by the collective agreement of all Iroko's in NANS, ably championed by President Yinka Gbadebo who enjoyed tremendous goodwill of the NANS structure.
You have undoubtedly received the cooperation of your friends and followers, stakeholders and colleagues. This is a tremendous goodwill. You should be thankful to all.
Today, as your regular friend, you need to do all you can to set up a 'transition plan'.
The Zone B of NANS who are the beneficiary of this process are unarguably suspicious of a tenure elongation plan by your leadership. You need to disassociate from any agenda that divides NANS or that raises tension. It is the honest thing to do.
Mr President, the most worrisome suspicion of the NANS Zone B is that there is an attempt to fragment the organization at their legitimate time. Every man of good conscience should be ashamed to nurture, work for or participate in any discourse of this improper motive.
Truth, Mr. President, a lot of our NANS aspirants are seriously waiting to see if stakeholders and you will have any reason to resort to illegitimate fiefdoms within the NANS family. I have dismissed such a suspicion but not on the altar of everything will be well. Take them serious and work as if the last honour you shall give NANS is a united family. The only way to dispel these worries is for you Mr President to apply your moral moratorium and rise above personal plans without observing the mood and the demand. Set up your transition plan. Mr President, you well know that as your longtime ally, I have had no cause to pest you or pet you. I feel that some people spent longer months than the constitutionally required one year is not a moral suggestion to do the same. You are capable of breaking new ground with a willing resolve to do what is RIGHT. It has the very potential of sending the aspirants to the field for campaign. It will also embolden the other three zones in harmonising their zones. The ultimate beneficiary would be NANS and You.
I have often said most of the comrades aspiring to lead are docile immobile aspirants. It could be because your body language suggests acrimonious relations to their camps. One of the reasons many of them have resorted to the delusion that they could just be President in any part of their annexure. They shall be disappointed if you do the transition on time. Be careful of those sweet tongued momentary friends who cares not about you after office.
Anyone in your shoe, after retirement had their fair share of these emergency friends acting as loyalists. I want to urge leaders of NANS Zone B to be tactical and reach out with messages of hope and unity. It is your turn and I will always support you have it soonest.
Let me conclude Mr President, that your exit by April as demanded by NANS Zone B and other voices across the Zones is a sacrificial olive branch extended to achieving the unity NANS must not toy with.
I wish you well, dear President.
Yinka Dada, JP
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