RE-DELUSION: DINO MELAYE AND THE NEW ACTIVISM

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