…Urges members to upgrade their educational qualifications
The National President of the Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, Repairs and Riders Association of Nigeria, ACOMORAN, Alhaji Samsudeen Apelogun, has congratulated the newly inaugurated Ogun State executives led by comrade kayode showunmi and charged them to maximize the association’s benefits and opportunities as a means of promoting growth and development within the industry and the state.
He also urged members of the association to return to school and obtain at least the minimum educational certificate recognised in the country saying that the move will reshape public perception of the association and its members.
While speaking with newsbarrelng during an interview at the Union’s state secretariat, abeokuta
Apelogun emphasised the need to change the narrative in the public domain that members of the association are mere touts.
Apelogun, popularly known as ‘Allrounder’, also urged all members who are willing to aspire for state or national office on the need to improve themselves educationally in line with the Union’s constitution which requires that candidates must possess at least a school-leaving certificate.
He said: “We need to upgrade. The constitution of ACOMORAN stipulates that whoever wants to contest for any post must at least have a school certificate.
“But when we got the report from the LOC we got to know that some of you do not have what it required to be a member of the state executive of ACOMORAN. We cannot see someone that meets all the requirements legitimately and ignore it to bestow the title on someone who is not qualified.
“We need to adjust the perception of the people about our union—that they are touts. Henceforth, when you want to hold any public post, you need to upgrade yourself, you need to adjust yourself. But if you are able to manage yourself and you’re pleased where you find yourself today, fine, but let it be at the back of your mind that it’s not too late.
“Anybody we want to put in the front should be the person that can represent us very well. The constitution of ACOMORAN is not written today nor yesterday, boldly written there it says that whoever wants to contest any post, right from the state to the national level must have certain qualifications.”
Meanwhile, the National President called on women within the association to embrace leadership responsibilities, stating that the association’s operational structure has changed, with women now required to occupy 40 per cent of leadership roles at both state and national levels.
The National President was accompanied by the National Secretary, Idris Mohammed; National Financial Secretary and Lagos State Chairman, Olaoluwa Ogundare; and the association’s Legal Adviser, Waheed Olaoluwa, among others, to the 2025 Ogun ACOMORAN executives inauguration held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.
