PSN opposes appointment of new chairman for Pharmacists Council of Nigeria

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has opposed the appointment of Ahmed Tijjani Mora as the chairman for the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN).

This was contained in an open letter by PSN addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In the letter which was signed by the incumbent President, Sam Ohuabunwa and other past heads of the body, PCN claimed that Mora has fallen short of the ethical requirements of the profession and therefore, not fit for the position.

Mora was also said to have altered portions of the PCN Act in PÇN’s compilation of pharmacy, drugs and related laws and rules in Nigeria in 2009.

It was also alleged in the letter that Mora changed the names of PSN’s statutory nominations to the PCN council in 2009.

The letter reads: “We have protested and produced evidence-based documents to show that

Pharm. A. T. Mora manipulated by substituting the PSN list of its representatives on PCN Council with a list of his cronies at the office of the SGF in 2009. The PSN is by Law required to submit its list of eight representatives to the PCN, but A.T Mora single handedly replaced the list with his own personally drawn up list, thereby thwarting the authority of the Pharmaceutical Society to present its nominees as required by law. In effect he subverted the power and authority of the Society.

“This matter generated a lot of trouble and confusion in 2009 leading to the National Council of PSN stripping Pharm. A. T. Mora of the Fellowship Award of the PSN as well as placing him on the PSN Roll of Dishonour. These decisions of the National Council of the PSN were subsequently ratified by the AGM of the PSN in November, 2009.

“The resolution of the AGM stands till date, despite Pharm. A. T. Mora’s futile attempts to reverse the status-quo through litigations which he instituted against the Society and later tried to withdraw in 2015. The PSN rejected attempts to withdraw the matter at the Federal High Court, Lagos, because the hearing had gone very far and we wished to have a judicial pronouncement on his case. The matter was later struck out by the court with costs to AT. Mora.”

Maintaining that there were too many controversial issues surrounding A. T. Mora’s career pathway, PSN appealed to the President to appoint any other Pharmacist from the same zone with Mora.

The Society therefore, threatens to call on all hospital and administrative Pharmacists in government hospitals, Community and Industrial Pharmacists in the Private Sector to proceed on a total strike and withdrawal of their services if Mora remains PCN chairman.