Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Moshood Ajao has appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to steer clear of the internal wranglings of NURTW.
Ajao is worried by the listing of the alleged ‘siege’ of the NURTW national headquarters at Garki II, Abuja as one of the six conditions of the NLC before the federal government.
In a statement in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, Ajao said the presence of the Police at the NURTW headquarters was at the instance of the present executive of the union.
He maintained that the tenure of Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa as the union’s National President ended on 28th August, 2023 and wondered why the NLC is protesting the presence of the Police who were invited by the incumbent President, Alhaji Tajudeen Badiru Agbede to maintain law and order.
Ajao, who worked at different levels as a career officer for 35 years before he retired as Deputy General Secretary, said the current situation at the national level of NURTW is in accordance with the constitution of the union.
He said that both the former president and the incumbent are products of the south west and the zone is behind Agbede.
Ajao said that Baruwa’s tenure brought unprecedented setback to the union in the south west, adding that his alleged high-handedess made five of the six states in the zone to suspend NURTW’s activities, leaving only Ekiti State with an existing union.
He appealed to NLC to delist the presence of police at NURTW headquarters as one of labour demands over subsidy removal from the Federal Government.
