RE-DELUSION: DINO MELAYE AND THE NEW ACTIVISM BY TIJANI KABIRU MOHAMMED (FORMER NANS PRESIDENT 1999/2000)
My attention has been drawn to an accusation pointed by one Abdul
Mahmud former NANS President 1989 accusing me as the mastered minder and
the first person that sold NANS to the Federal Government.
Ordinarily, the accusation would have been discountenanced by my humble self but for the fact that Abdul Mahmud as a chief accuser.
I therefore, consider it pertinent to make this response in other to put things in their right perspective.
I am Tijani Kabiru Mohammed NANS Vice President National Affairs 1998
and NANS President 1999/2000 after the demise of the late Comrade Moses
Oisakede of the blessed memory (May His Soul Rest In Perfect Peace) on
1st September, 1999 while on the struggle to Federal University
Agriculture Makurdi to reinstate 105 Students expelled from the
institution and died in an auto crash along Makurdi-Adoka Road.
I
want to concur with your quotation in your opening write-up by Amilcar
Cabral but you equally jettison that quotation by doing what he preached
against in his quotation telling lies and distorting history to your
pay master.
I will not join issues with your eulogies of historical
maturation and it dialects on all past veterans of our noble
organization called NANS starting from her founding fathers to where you
stopped on yourself centred and historical ideology.
In order to
put the record straight for posterity purpose that, I Tijani Kabiru
Mohammed never started or began the decadence era of the state capture
of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for the record, I
wish to categorically state when NANS became a start organ with facts
and figures from your ideological plank which is the leftist to the
right wing.
It is on record book that, May be you must have
forgotten that during the Olusegun Mayegun regime he was invited to Jos.
Plateau state by Military Junta where he had an hand shake and dinner
with the then Number 2 man of Nigeria, Rear Admiral Aihkomu a military
jinta that the ideological base of the leftist you claimed to, must have
come from , embraced and wine the Junta, you never saw anything wrong
with that even at the peak of the ANTI-SAP riot.
You may recalled
that after Olusegun Mayegun regime was Nasiru Kura from the Bayero
University Kano, took over as the NANS President, what has been the
productive activism of that regime even when Steve Aluko AKA Maradona
the Student Union Government President of the greatest Ahmadu Bello
University Zaria was expelled and rusticated till date has not been
recalled back.
If I may ask; were you not a living witness to the
leadership of Comrade Denis Etim Inyang of Federal University of
Technology Owerri (FUTO) who took over by popular votes from Nasiru
Kura against the will of your ideological plank at the Obafemi Awolowo
University Ile-ife, Osun State, that gave back the Students activist to
the rightful owner which your leftist never agreed to that, the same
Denis Etim Inyang in conjunction with the National Council for Women
Society(NCWS) organized the SAVE EDUCATION rally that was facilitated
by your own leftist brother Adoyi Mathew Omale the then Student Union
Government President of the greatest Ahmadu Bello University Zaria end
up in a Villa during General Sani Abacha regime which earned NANS with a
plot of land from Hajiya Jumai Aduda and subsequently visit General
Sani Abacha and nothing was wrong with that.
You may also recalled
that Denis Etim Inyang handed over power to Mohammed Baba Kazalla of
the University of Maiduguri at a convention which ended up in Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria in 1995 and Mohammed Baba Kazalla came up with a
programme at the first Senate Meeting of NANS in that regime at the
epicentre of the so called ideological leftist in the Polytechnic Ibadan
endorsed the (ARAFAT) that sail through and it was implemented that
gave room for the entire Nigerian Students to participate in National
Youth Summit that brought the leadership of NANS to the military junta
at the International Conference Centre Abuja in 1995 and that was not
illegal or sale of NANS.
After Mohammed Baba Kazalla regime the
power of NANS Secretariat moved to the South-West (NANS Zone D) with the
headquarter at the University of Ibadan under the leadership of Oludare
Ogunlana AKA Above Jordan as the President at the Ekpoma convention
1996, at this particular movement your ideological tendencies did not
see NANS as an organ of government even when you people facilitated
NANS leadership meeting with Buba Marwa the then Governor of Lagos State
that earned NANS a vehicle, what about NANS relationship with Elder
Oyelase the then Minister of Special duties, what was the relationship
of NANS with Alh. Arisekola Alao the last man standing during the era of
late General Sani Abacha regime that was a struggle and I guess nothing
was wrong with that as you may presume my senior comrade.
Vividly
after the Oludare Ogunlana AKA Above Jordan as the President, he handed
over power to Bashir Abdullahi of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, at the
convention that took place in College of Education Katsina-Ala,,Benue
State in 1997 and the leadership of NANS was invited to Villa by Major
Hamza Almustapha to watch the video clip of General Oladipo Diya coup
against late General Sani Abacha that cost General Olusegun Obasanjo,
Shehu Sani, Shehu Yar’dua etc to detention and that particular drama at
the Presidential Villa was not Government/NANS relationship? Then come
to my own tenure we ran together with Comrade Moses Oisakede of blessed
memory that stood and died for Nigerian Students. How many of you sir,
from the ideological leftist had laid his life for other to live at the
echelon of service as NANS President, please mention one, our election
was conducted in December, 1998 at the University of Ibadan and Moses
Oisakede died in active service nine months after the assumption of
office as NANS President, let me quickly remind you even at death we
give respect and honour to whom it is due, but with utmost respect sir,
you mentioned all the big names in NANS whom I have immense respect
for and cannot accord respect for my late Moses Oisakede who died in
active service, you forgot his names but you at least remember mine with
a mistake please take note sir, that my names are Tijani Kabiru
Mohammed and not Kabiru Mohammed as you claimed or ought to have known
NANS historical antic.
I have never sold out NANS nor do I have any
ambition to do it, the visit we paid to former President Olusegun
Obasanjo on the 16th September, 1999 was an already scheduled
appointment to meet with our civilian democratically elected leader at
the Aso Rock by the late Moses Oisakede the NANS President then which I
only fulfilled the scripture as ordained by the Almighty God.
Comrade Moses Oisakede died on the 1st September, 1999 and our visit was
scheduled before his demise as such how can you say that I sold out
NANS to the Government or are you against the democratically elected
Government.
I wouldn’t have gone further but for the generation
yet unborn, myself, Victor Arokoyo and other comrades were expelled from
Ahmadu Bello Universitu Zaria due to our principle stand against the
military junta of Mamman Kontangora as the sole Administrator in 1997,
we were expelled, tortured and incarcerated in Zaria for days without
feedings in 1997, please where were you then as the head of legal
service of the civil liberties organization from 1994/1999? what record
of my incarceration do you have? I challenged you for this and if in
doubt please ask Steve Aluko AKA Maradona about my humble self, Aminu
Mahmud, Salihu Lukman, Danfulani John, Shogo Owoye, Abdulrahman Black
(Rest In Peace).
If your memory will not fail you, that all the
heads of the tertiary institution in Nigeria were all Government agent
between 1998-1999 until we had civilian Government in1999, it is also on
record that no NANS leadership have carried out struggles than the
leadership of Moses Oisakede and Tijani Kabiru Mohammed in 1998-1999.
To those who know history knows that the then leadership of Moses
Oisakede and Tijani Kabiru Mohammed was engaged in the struggles of the
reinstatement of political expelled and rusticated Nigerian Students
leaders across the country, and the institution includes Obafemi Awolowo
University Ife, University Of Uyo, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria,
University of Jos, Usman Danfodio University Sokoto, Yaba Tech, Ambrose
Ali University Ekpoma, LASU,Uniport, Uniben,Adeyemi College of Education
Owo, Ondo State, Federal polytechnic Bauchi, Abubakar tafawa Balewa
University Bauchi, Bayero University Kano, FCE Bichi, Federal University
of Agriculture Makurdi, PTI Warri, College of Education Okene, etc, as
at then even your Vice chancellor Professor Wole Omole of Obafemi
Awolowo Ife was removed as a result of our struggle led by Comrade Moses
Oisakede with the support of likes of oluwole Babalola AKA Obesere,
Adeolu Soetan, Damola Yahaya, etc, are all living witness to our genuine
struggle for the interest of Nigerian Students.
DINO MELYE
I would have put a full stop from the last paragraph but history will
not forgive me if I refuse to brief the world about the man of the
people called Dino Melaye.
I met Dino Melaye in 1993 when I was
newly admitted into the greatest Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and he
has been a man of his own who had Political and social followers, in
1999 when I became the President of the National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS), then the likes of Comrade Saleh Alhassan Kubah. Kabiru
Mohammed,Victor Arokoyo, Ajufo.I Ajufo and host in Ahmadu Bello
University Zaria, brought up a proposals for partnership with Dino’s
group which was later sealed and signed by the two groups with the sole
aimed of avoiding the divide and rule of the school management, we
worked as an associates and carried out joint action in defence of the
Nigerian Students in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and beyond, I don’t
know where you had it on record that Dino Melaye was my Personal
Assistant, I am sorry you got it wrong sir, Dino was an authority and
epitome of struggle in his own way. As such claims were not true and you
may wish to go back to the drawing board in order to get things right.
Finally sir, you should ask yourself acclaimed ideological camp how
did the Government of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida financed the building
of social Centres in Nigeria campuses and where handed over to students
Union Government of all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, where were you
also when the Government of the sani abacha through PTF distributed
1414 buses to students union governments across the country? Remember
all these happened during the military era all before my regime in
1999/2000. I want to ask you sir are you for or against corruption? As
for me I know Dino Melaye is against corruption and that’s the reason
why he formed the ANTI-CORRUPTION NETWORK with the headquarter in Abuja,
please sir, I advised you wake up as report reaching us that you are
one of the people that are supporting corrupt leaders in this country
called Nigeria. For the last time never you mentioned my names in
yourself styled write ups again. God bless Nigeria.
Tijani Kabiru Mohammed
Former NANS President 1999/2000
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