Mr. Joel Ajayi, former Chairman of
the COSON Finance Committee and ally of Efe Omorogbe in the failed coup to
remove Chief Tony Okoroji as Chairman of COSON must be regretting his attempt
to join issues with the COSON Chairman on Channels Television’s Sunrise program
this Saturday.
Chief Okoroji who exuded great
confidence and mastery of the issues was emphatic that regardless of whatever
Ajayi and his clique would attempt, COSON will continue to work in the service
of its thousands of members and that the attempt to destroy the organization
will not succeed. He said that members of COSON in a democratic process have
chosen him as their leader and Ajayi and his handful of friends cannot supplant
the decision of thousands of COSON members.
Chief Okoroji also said that all the
issues that Mr. Ajayi was ranting about on TV have already been determined by
the courts and that Ajayi cannot make the Channels panelists a Court of Appeal.
On the issue of an audit at COSON,
Chief Okoroji brought out and showed on live TV, the different COSON annual
audit reports from inception and said that more than any other organization in
the history of the Nigerian creative industry, COSON has had its accounts
audited every year and the audit reports have been approved each year by COSON
members after their review at the COSON General Assembly. He further said that
he has absolutely nothing to hide but would be acting outside his powers as
Chairman to order another audit after the organization’s General Assembly, the
supreme organ of COSON, has already approved the audited accounts done by the
external auditors appointed by the members.
He asked Mr. Joel Ajayi, who as
Chairman of the COSON Finance & Audit Committee, supervised several of the
annual audits and signed the audit reports if he did not want another audit
just because the members have kicked him out of the board. The COSON Chairman
insisted that for many years that Ajayi was on the board, he never complained
to anyone about anything but suddenly he has turned coat and is making
irrational statements about audit.
Chief Okoroji also said that he
considers the likes of TuFace Idibia, Banky W. and Rugged Man as his friends
and that he has never had any occasion to publicly join issues with them but
that he knows that Efe Omorogbe is the manager of Tuface Idibia and that he
fully understands Tuface and his friends trying to support his manager whether
right or wrong.
Chief Okoroji emphasized that it is
the great success of COSON that is responsible for the attention and that
despite the desperate efforts of Ajayi and his cohorts to either control COSON
or scatter it, the membership continues to increase, not one person has left
the COSON Management and the Board continues to be solid and COSON House
continues to function at top notch level. The COSON Chairman said that he has
promised COSON members that COSON will not scatter like PMAN and that the
promise will be kept.
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