OpenLife Nigeria has reliably gathered that the leadership crises which have engulfed the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW appear unabated.
This is coming on the heel of fresh disagreement at the leadership level in which the Vice President of the union, Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, is sending warnings to the President Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, to desist from his unethical ways
Specifically, Agbede has warned the outgoing president of the union, Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, to desist from raising a false alarm over the internal affairs of the organisation.
Agbede stated this while reacting to a newspaper report credited to Baruwa that some people were planning to cause chaos at the Abuja national headquarters of the union.
He explained that Baruwa’s action clearly showed he was jittery as the end of his administration had come, adding that Baruwa was trying to provoke trouble by raising the false alarm.
“From the press statement he issued, it shows that he (Baruwa) is jittery; and the fear of losing his seat is already disturbing him. Nobody is planning any protest.
We shall use all legal means to remove him from office. No amount of false alarm can save him from being removed.
“We share joint tickets, and our tenures will expire by August 28, 2023, and he has to go.
In 2019, he was our candidate from the southwest. But now, we have rejected him.
He is gone. It is unfortunate that most of the people who supported him (Baruwa) in 2019 to become president have been forced to join the parks and garages management committee due to his highhandedness and selfish interest.”
The National Union of Road Transport Workers is an independent Nigerian trade union that serves the interests of transport workers in the road transport sector, by calling for collective obtaining and pushing for social stability for all workers in the transport sector as defined in its constitution.
The union, which was founded in 1978, has almost 2 million members, the majority of which are informal workers made up of taxi, bus and truck drivers usually.