The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), an arm of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called on the leadership of the main union to follow due process on electing new leaders for the union.
PTD accuses NUPENG of trying to impose candidates on them.
Some members of PTD, an affiliate of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) who are kicking against the move by NUPENG to step aside the laid down guidelines governing smooth elections in the union, vowed that they will resist the move by NUPENG to stylishly force their favoured candidates through the backdoor upon them.
The PTD Port-Harcourt Zonal Chairman, Musa Dennis, who addressed journalists in Enugu said, the union will not relent until the procedures as stipulated in the constitution of NUPENG are followed.
“We are well aware of the election at the national level and we are saying that due process must be adhered to by religiously respecting the provisions of our by-laws.
“There should be no imposition of candidates as we shall vehemently reject purported electoral guidelines by the National Caretaker Committee. We are stating categorically that a tree cannot make a forest. Our branch is the mechanised division of the NUPENG family and we have the capacity to say no to evil agenda,” they stressed.
Moreover, Musa said: “Consequently, we shall resist all forms of departure from the rules as exemplified by the General Secretary of NUPENG, Afolabi Olawele and the out-gone National Chairman of PTD, Dr. Salimon Oladiti respectively. We don’t want division in PTD for we are one strong family.
“We, the entire bonafide leaders and members of PTD Port-Harcourt zone, will not condone or accept the outcome of any election held outside our National Headquarters, Abuja and which did not follow the electoral guidelines and provisions of our by-laws.”
