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From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
An appeal has gone out to the governors of the South West states to stay out of the forthcoming zonal delegates conference of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).
A retired Deputy General Secretary of the union and Coordinator of its South West Elders Committee, Alhaji Moshood Ajao, made the appeal.
Ajao explained that NURTW has a process of electing its leaders and the interference of the Governors may spell doom for the union.
The Coordinator of the Elders Committee recalled that in 2019, the national body of NURTW zoned the office of the President to the South West during which Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa emerged the President of the union through an arrangement.
The former Deputy General Secretary further explained that Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede who also showed interest in presidency had earlier been endorsed at a South West elders meeting of the union held in Ilorin, Kwara state last Monday.
He said Alhaji Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo had earlier presented Alhaji Agbede to the elders committee as the next President of NURTW.
Alhaji Ajao frowned at the three states’ Chairmen of NURTW who in a viral video claimed to have endorsed MC Oluomo as the next President of the union, explaining that the endorsement procedure is alien to NURTW.
He said MC Oluomo had in his former capacity as Chairman, Lagos State chapter of the NURTW dissolved the State Executive of the union and refused to quit office for Alhaji Mustapha Adio Adekunle in line with the constitution of the union.
Ajao advised the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to support the inauguration of a new executive of NURTW since MC Oluomo has quit office as the forthcoming zonal delegates conference will not hold without the inauguration of executives in Lagos State chapter of the union.
