Printers urge FG to forestall industry unrest over ‘unlawful’ inauguration

  The Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria (CIPPON) has called on the federal government to reverse what it called unlawful inauguration of a new governing council of the institute. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Chinasa Ogbodo, reportedly inaugurated a new governing council of the […]

 

The Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria (CIPPON) has called on the federal government to reverse what it called unlawful inauguration of a new governing council of the institute.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Chinasa Ogbodo, reportedly inaugurated a new governing council of the institute led by Koko Clement.
Addressing newsmen, the factional president of CIPPON, Comrade Babajide Salako, condemned the inauguration, describing it as “unlawful and illegal” and referring to it as the purported new governing council of the institute.
He noted that there is an ongoing legal tussle over the institute’s leadership, citing Suit No. FHC/KN/CS/195/2025 of the Federal High Court in Kano, and adding that the inauguration was a breach and contempt of court.
“The purported inauguration was not only unlawful and illegal under the relevant law, but also a flagrant disregard for the rule of law,” he said.

 

He also noted that the Federal High Court, Calabar, in Suit No. FHC/CA/CS/162/2022 under Hon. Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie, had declared the election that purportedly produced one Niyi Adesoye and Koko Clement as President and Vice President respectively as void.

 

He cited Section 6(1) of the CIPPON Act 24 of 2007, which states: “There shall be a President and three Vice Presidents of the Institute who shall be elected by members of the Council, subject to section 8 of the Act.”

 

He stressed that Clement failed to meet the requirement, saying, “Koko Clement cannot be declared as the President of the Institute without being duly elected, as this negates the provisions of the Act as expressly stated in Section 6-(1).”

 

He noted that the Institute’s Act does not provide the authority for the Minister or the Permanent Secretary to inaugurate a council.

 

“Similarly, no such provision exists in the law that establishes the Institute requiring the Honourable Minister and/or his Permanent Secretary to inaugurate the Council.

 

“The role and power of the Minister is explicitly stated in the Act 24 of 2007, which is sacrosanct. The action of the Minister or the Permanent Secretary is also sub judice and against the law of the land,” he said.