Following the insistence by the Nigerian medical association (NMA) chairman on Nigerian Medical students (NIMSA) affairs, Dr Tuko Moses Tari , to allow ghost medical schools to participate in the NIMSA general elections, the association has broken into two factions-the first consisting of 20 medical schools in the south south and south west, as well as,the university of abuja and the second consisting of medical schools in the south east and the north.

This took place today at the NIMSA general assembly which held in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching hospital,Zaria, when it was observed that some unscrupulous elements had registered schools that do not offer medicine and surgery such as: Paul university, Enugu, Caritas University, Enugu, Reminiscence University, Enugu,Tertian University, Gregory Okoye University and schools that don't have medical students association like Madonna University,Elele. When the issue was brought up, Dr Tari blatantly refused to investigate the allegation by contacting the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, the only body responsible for medical training and licensure in Nigeria, instead,he sped into the defence of the ghost medical schools,further lending credence to the rumors that he had an interest in the election.

The big question is: How can schools that do not have medical students vote in a medical students election?
It is said that those schools were added to increase the votes of a certain favoured candidate.
However, student doctors from the south south and south west refused to be a part of such a mess and decided to elect their own leadership based on true medical schools in these parts of the country.
We understand that the kangaroo election in which non medical students voted for a leader also took place producing another leadership.

it's a pity that it went this way, and it's a pity NMA are trying 2 tell the students that it's ok to be corrupt, medicine is a noble profession and so we must stand up to save medicine from the likes of this inscrupulous elements parading themselves as NMA representatives

I think this is only one side of the story. We await the other side of it.

Moreover, this look like internal politics to me. Why bring it here to bug us.