Members across the four zones of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG representing aggrieved leaders that won their court case in Abuja, in a suit number NICN/ABJ/312/2023, have reacted to a publication made by NUPENG on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 in Daily Sun and the Leadership Newspapers.
The Union’s reaction was articulated on behalf of the concerned PTD members by Comrade Lawrence Mowetei and Comrade Princewill Damiari from Port Harcourt zone.
In a jointly signed statement on Sunday, they said the publications should be taken with a pinch of salt, adding that selfish, desperate and misguided elements within the leadership of NUPENG should stop misleading the public and discontinue from fantasizing about taking over PTD by force.
They maintained that the plot to instigate a crisis in the forthcoming PTD delegates’ conference and truncate the will of the people has not only been exposed but has also failed.
Read them: “1. The judgment in NICN/ABJ/312/2023 nullified all the elections conducted both in Abuja and Ibadan. Also, the National Executives of PTD which means all the acts of the executives from November 1, 2023, to May 29, 2024, were all a nullity. “Ex nihilo nihil fit,” meaning “ from nothing comes nothing.”
“2. In line with the judgement, NUPENG has flagrantly refused to recall all the PTD members which they illegally suspended from their respective positions. NUPENG has also not reconciled all warying parties and opposition in PTD.
“3. The suspended members have not been allowed to return to PTD and their respective positions before the illegal suspension.