There is some respite for the crisis -ridden Central Association of Nigerians in the United Kingdom, CANUK, after the acting Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Simeon Ogah, intervened earlier this week before the proposed Emergency General Meeting (EGM) called by the association’s chairman, Tunde Loye, scheduled for today, at the commission was called off.

Prior to Ogah’s intervention, a faction of the executive committee, led by the general secretary, Dr. Gbenga Coker, had petitioned the acting high commissioner a few days ago, asking him to: “Please vacate any bookings made for the use of the Nigerian High Commission by CANUK on November 12.”

Had the meeting not been called off, delegates opposed to the much-maligned chairman, Loye, had indicated their intention to come to the commission and disrupt the EGM.

Although Loye and a faction of the executive committee have been at each other’s throat for much of his tenure, which began in April last year, the warring parties are scheduled to meet on November 24, for the EGM, to deliberate on next year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), where a new executive will be elected.