Truckers Absolve Lagos APC Chairman Of Fuelling Crisis

The National Association of Maritime Transport Operators (NAMTOP) has absolved the Chairman of the All ProgressivesCongress (APC) in Lagos state, Cornelius Ojelabi, of fuellingdisunity among truck owners.

The newly-formed amalgamated group for truckers described the allegation levelled against the Chairman of the APC chairman by the Council of Maritime Transport Union and Associations (COMTUA), as cheap blackmail.

In a letter sent to the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo- Olu and signed by Mohammed Sani on behalf of the NAMTOP; the truckers described the allegation as false and well-crafted rancorous fabricated defamatory propaganda employed by a professional blackmailer to arm-twist anyone that is opposed to his exploitative and domineering tendencies in the maritime transport industry.

The NAMTOP elders, in the letter asserted that Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi was not present when Lagos State government directed truckers to come under one unified body, even as they affirmed that the APC chairman did not participate or sign the communique that formed the National Association of Maritime Transport Operators NAMTOP on January 30, 2023 at Alausa secretariat in Ikeja.

They added that Ojielabi did not announce the annulment of the purported kangaroo election result that produced a fake NAMTOP chairman in the election that was said to have been organized by COMTUA at Alausa Secretariat.

The letter reads: “The attention of the Maritime Trucking Elders has been drawn to a false and malicious write up aimed at tarnishing the image of the Lagos State APC Chairman, respectable Pastor Cornelius A Ojelabi.

“The allegation that Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi is causing disunity among Truckers is a false, well-crafted and rancorous fabricated defamatory propaganda acrobatically employed by the professional blackmailer to arm twist anyone that is opposed to his exploitative and domineering tendencies in the Maritime Transport industry.