Has the clouds settle or is this the calm before a tempest?
With the speed of light, with which Arise TV leeched on the crisis, it is obvious that, we are in for a long night.
These are perilous times and every opinion is seen through the opaque lens of; is he for NBA or SPIDEL and not, is he objectively reporting facts as they took place at Jos NEC.
It is more precarious for me, as I am consulting to contest a position in the forthcoming election that will take over from the dying YC led administration. If I speak, I am condemned; if I do not speak, I am called a coward and threat to withhold votes from both sides of the divide, are dangled before me.
But as the popular saying goes, “If I talk I will die; If I don’t talk, I will also die; let me talk my truth and let what will be, be! My restless attention, has been drawn to WhatsApp thread in SPIDEL WhatsApp group over the picture I took and tagged, YC Maikyau, OON, SAN, President with Martin Esq of SPIDEL, exchanging “pleasantries” ahead of NEC Meeting, holding in Jos, 28-29th February, 2024.”
The communication between the two, have been published. Whether one threatened to swallow the other or the other threaten to deal with the other in the manner David dealt with Goliath, I FELIX CHUKWUMA ASHIMOLE, did not hear. Na photo I snapped.
What I do at any NBA gathering as one consulting to serve the Bar as Publicity Secretary, is to capture moments and not poke nose into conversations. Whatever was said, by whom to who, was not captured.
We should look beyond YC Maikyau OON, SAN and x-ray the four aspirants; Afam Osigwe, SAN, Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN, Tobenna Erojikwe and Joyce Oduah, who have been globetrotting and attempting to use flowery adjectives to cajole us into casting our lot with him or her come July 20.This is the time to shine our eyes beyond the sizzling sound of fish and nkwobi and the shisss sounds of popped bottles at hangouts organised by friends of candidates and ask them constitutional questions. Madam X, Mister W, what will do differently from the administration you are trying to takeover from?
There has been rancour between National Officers and the President; Chairman of Section and the President, how will you prevent or improve relationships between Branch Chairmen and their Vice?
Sections this and that of NBA has been a clog in the wheel of progress for NBA, how will you tackle it?
I have been to all hangouts organized by the 4 leading aspirants for the office of NBA President, I AM YET TO HEAR OUR COLLEAGUES engage these aspirants citing any section of the NBA Constitution.
If we are to get NBA of our dreams, when they gather us; enjoy their hosting but grill them to provide answers to thorny issues; dance to their melodious hype but get a bankable promise from them.

So I urge us all to look beyond SPIDEL & NBA President and start fundamental shake of all 2024 NBA Aspirants, to see if we are heading in the direction to getting it right; for a man who sold his dog and bought a monkey, still has a squatting thing to contend with.
NBA needs reform and the journey to that reform, begins with us looking beyond NBA-SPIDELgate and focus on the emerging aspirants for the next election.