The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW ), Abuja chapter yesterday appealed to President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency intervene to avoid breakdown of law and order in Abuja following the leadetship crisis rocking the union.
The union also urged the President to call the Nigerian Police and DSS to order and stop them from giving backing to the disgruntled element who are out to disrupt peace at its national secretariat.
It should be recall that some group had on Monday stormed the national secretariat of the union in Abuja and caused mayhem while the police and operatives of department of state services where alleged to have looked other way.
The union had last week returned its national president, Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa unopposed for a second term in office at the 10th Quadrennial National Delegate Conference held in Lafia, Nasarawa State, the development which has caused division in the union.
Addressing journalist on the incident in Abuja yesterday, NURTW chairman, Abuja chapter, Alh Ibrahim Sanda Kuje identified the group as acclaimed members of Park Management Committee from Lagos, Ogun and Osun states.
According to Kuje, the aggrieved members deliberately refused to attend the Kano meeting where the Special Zonal Delegates Conference was approved by the National Executive Council ( NEC ) of the union.
He said that the disgruntled elements have since renounced their membership from the union.
He said, “Some aggrieved members of the Union from Lagos State led by Alh. Tajudeen Agbede Badru and former President of the Union, Alhaji Najeem Usman Yasin led a group of thugs with the support of Lagos State Chairman of Parks and Management, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya ( MC Oluomo ) attacked the National Secretariat and injured many of our staff in the presence of security operatives deployed to prevent breakdown of law and order.
It is worrisome to know that the Nigerian Police, Operatives of Department of State Services ( DSS ) and Nigerian Army were deployed to provide cover for these intruders who operated freely under the watch of armed security agents”.
“We hereby use this medium to call President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to intervene as a matter of urgency and necessary to avoid any breakdown of law and order in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT ), he added.
