Niger State Chapter of Nigeria Institute of Town Planners Elects Its New Executives

By - YM Bina October 22, 20262 Mins Read

Niger State Chapter of Nigeria Institute of Town Planners Elects Its New Executives

BY YM BINA

Nigeria Institute of Town Planners (NITP), Niger State Chapter has elected its new executives to pilot the affairs of the institute for the next two years with Aliyu Madalla emerged as the state chairman.

The election was conducted at the conference hall of the Niger State Urban Development Board in Minna, the electoral committee chairman, Nura Alfa during the swearing in ceremony applauded the peaceful conduct of members to achieve the recorded success.

He regretted that with 176 illegible voters only 40 actually registered members participated in the election, called for its reversal in ensuring that the members shows commitment and encouragement in the development of the institute.

While announcing the winners , the Chairman of the electoral Committee, said out of the 11 positions, nine were unopposed

He noted that the new chairman, Aliyu Madalla emerged unopposed, Ibrahim Na-kanti Abdullahi scored 29 votes to emerge the first Vice Chairman, defeating his opponent, Aisha Inuwa who scored 8 votes, the post of the Second Vice Chairman was unopposed with Bamiji Adeleye as winner .

He annouced Abdulraman Muslim as winner of the position of the Secretary, scoring 31 votes, against his opponent, Sherifudeen Akande who scored 8 votes.

Others were Mohammed Idris, Public Relations Secretary I, Idris Adamu, Public Relations Secretary II, Welfare Officer Abubakar Ndayebo, Auditor Hamisu Lawal, and Ex-officio 2 who is the outgoing State Chairman of the institute, Nagidi Musa-Bala.

In his acceptance speech, the newly elected Chairman, Aliyu Madalla described the election as fair and transparent, while he called for maximum cooperation and commitment from fellow elected officials and members to enable the association discharge its professional responsibilities.

He decried that the landed property acquired by the association has been revoked by the current administration in the state and reallocated to a private individual to expand his private school.