The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) today announced the expulsion of its former National Secretary, Dipo Olayokun from the association.
The association also said it has declared Olayokun “a persona non grata”.
“Mr Dipo Olayoku is hereby declared persona non grata and stand expelled from the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) as a member of the foremost freight forwarding and logistics organisation in Nigeria,” NAGAFF said in a statement attributed to its Board of Trustees Chairman, Mazi Chidiebere Enelama.
Enelama said Olayokun was expelled because of his activities in the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
The founder of NAGAFF, Dr Boniface Aniebonam is also the founder of NNPP. However, Aniebonam and the flag bearer of NNPP in the 2023 presidential election, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso have been at loggerheads since the party lost election.
The rift between the duo came to a head after a faction loyal to Kwankwaso expelled Aniebonam from the party last year.
“NAGAFF regrets to note that Sen. Kwankwaso may have allowed himself to be decieved by Mr Dipo Olayoku hence his audacity to change the flag, logo and mutilating of the constitution of the party in an illegal convention. It is our hope that Sen. Kwankwaso’s lawyers should be able to tell him the legal implications.
“We the members of NAGAFF and on behalf of our founder Dr Aniebonam – the original owners of the New Nigeria People’s Party whose certificate of registration is in our custody hereby direct Sen. Kwankwaso to sack Mr Dipo Olayoku with immediate effect for anti-party activities and gross misconduct.
“Meanwhile nagaff is being told by our senior advocate that a federal high court in abuja ruled last week that the internal crisis in New Nigeria People’s Party is a family affair. Indeed it is a family affair but the court has jurisdiction to make a clear decision in line with the constitution of the party to resolve same.
“All the same, Sen Kwankwaso and the National Working Committee should understand that the majority of the members of NAGAFF are the same people on the Board of the New Nigeria People’s Party at the time of registration with INEC in 2002.
“With the presence of Dipo Olayoku in the party, it shall be a common sense for Sen Kwankwaso and Buba Galadima to understand that peace talk is not possible. Therefore parties should be heading to the Supreme Court under the circumstances,” the statement read in part.
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