Southwest Stakeholders’ Forum of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has called on all warring parties in its ongoing leadership crisis to sheath their swords and follow constitutional laid down procedure in resolving it.
In a statement signed by the convener of IPMAN, Southwest Stakeholders, Mr Olatunji Adewoyin, he said the leadership crisis between its elected President and a factional group led by Lawson Obasi has not benefited any member.
Adewoyin while lamenting that business minded members were tired of the crisis, said it was time to end incessant harassment of their members by security agencies.
He noted that IPMAN should ensure a good working relationship with the federal government with a view to ensuring that pipelines were not vandalised and that marketers enjoyed supply from all depots, including the PDOs, of which Capital Oil & Gas and others had remained key players.
Adewoyin added that petroleum depots across the country were performing below capacity as a result of leadership crisis in the association, hence, “no good working relationship between the NNPC management and IPMAN executive, especially at units level.”
He said the only sustainable solution was to follow the constitutional election which held in 2014 as no President or executives could emerge without an election.
“The constitutional provisions, which culminated into what we have now is very clear on the legitimacy of an election”, he declared. ”This crisis could have been a thing of the past if it came from within. Instead, it has persisted because those who are fanning its embers are purely outsiders who know little or nothing about the constitution guiding IPMAN and her members,” Adewoyin said.
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