The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the South West has urged the Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, and his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, to reinstate the operation of its members in the two states.
The union made the appeal during its zonal stakeholders meeting in Osogbo, Osun State, noting that the ban on the operations of its members was denying the zone the opportunity to take leadership positions at the national level.
A former national treasurer of the union, Nasiru Komolafe, appealed to Adeleke and Makinde to return motor parks in their states to the union, saying that Osun and Oyo remain the only states in the South West where the NURTW is not operating.
“Banning our operations will hinder us from occupying the allocated seats for the zone at the national level. Our operations are limited to Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, and Ekiti states in the South West, leaving Osun and Oyo states.
“I’m pleading with the governors to grant us permission to operate in Osun and Oyo states. We cannot produce the necessary officer to represent us at the federal level if the state forbids us from operating. It is now our turn; if we do not choose our delegates in the next three years, another zone will get the chance,” Komolafe stressed.
NURTW South West coordinator and chairman of the Lagos State Council, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, urged members of the union to avoid wrangling and embrace unity.
Akinsanya appealed to Governors Makinde and Adeleke to lift the suspension on the union’s activities in their states, promising that the union would keep the peace.
Also, the chairman of the Ogun State chapter, Mustapha Ismael, revealed that an appeal had been filed against the election of Tajudeen Baruwa as the union’s national president, which was affirmed by the National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja.
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