Asiri Eniba’s appointment as NURTW chairman null and void — Osun govt

The Osun State Government has declared the purported appointment of Kazeem Oyewale, also known as Asiri Eniba, as Chairman of the Osun State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), “null and void and of no effect.”

The government said Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle and his executive remain the only recognised leadership of the union in the state.

In a statement issued on Friday in Osogbo by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, the government said the move by the APC Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) to suspend NURTW officers and inaugurate a caretaker committee was illegal and unconstitutional.

The statement noted that the dispute escalated after the State Security Council suspended all NURTW activities in motor parks across the state over alleged violent activities by hoodlums. The government said the suspension was misinterpreted as the dissolution of the Alowonle-led executive.

“Declaring that Governor Ademola Adeleke did not at any point remove the NURTW leadership, the government submitted that the tenure of the Alowonle executive is yet to lapse and that attempting to impose a suspect in violent crimes as state chairman is an affront to the law,” the statement said.

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The government affirmed that Alowonle and his executive were appointed by the national leadership of the NURTW under Comrade MC Oluomo in line with the union’s regulations, adding that “there is no vacuum in the leadership of the union.”

“At no time did the state government dissolve the executives of the NURTW at all levels. What the Security Council’s directive is all about is the suspension of all activities of the union in all our parks pending the restoration of peace in all the parks,” the statement clarified.

According to the statement, Governor Adeleke also directed that the parks should remain open and not be closed.

The government urged security agencies to ensure peace in all motor parks while the Alowonle-led executive continues to operate in line with the union’s national guidelines.