The Osun State Government has debunked its alleged dissolution of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in the state, stressing that Nurudeen Alowonle-led executive members remain the substantive leaders of the union.
This is coming barely two days after the state’s governor, Ademola Adeleke, declared ban on all the activities of the union across the state.
The development was alleged to have be misinterpreted by the faction of the Osun NURTW led by Kazeen Oyewale, popularly known as Asiri Eniba, who claimed that the governor’s directive signalled dissolution of the Alowonle-led executives.
Oyewale was alleged to have orchestrated plan to inaugurate a caretaker committee with him as the head of the committee to fill in the leadership vacuum.
Reacting in a statement issued on Friday, the Osun Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kola Alimi, the state government held that Alowonle remains the Chairman of the NURTW.
According to Alimi, Alowonle and his executive were appointed by the national leadership of the NURTW under MC Oluomo in line with the regulations and guidelines of the national union.
The state government submitted that there is no vacuum in the leadership of the union while reiterating that NURTW was never dissolved.
‘The attention of the Osun state Government has been called to the misinterpretation/misrepresentation of outcome of the security council meeting yesterday wherein the state Government suspended all activities of the NURTW in all the motor parks in Osun state because of the activities of some hoodlums led by a notorious hooligans in person of Kazeen Oyewale, a. k. a Asiri Eniba.
‘Today, the same set of hoodlums has been misinterpreting the directive of the security council to mean that, the Governor has dissolved the Alowonle led NURTW and that has created a vacuum for the inauguration of a caretaker committee to be led by the same notorious Asiri Eniba.
‘The state Government is using this medium to clarify that, at no time did the state government dissolved the Executives of the NURTW at all levels, what the security council directive is all about is to suspend all activities of the union in all our parks pending the restoration of peace in all the parks.
‘The Governor stated yesterday that the parks are not closed and should not be closed.’ The statement partly read.
Alimi reiterated that the Adeleke-led administration only recognises the leadership of Alowonle as he called for the arrest of any NURTW official linked to Asiri Eniba spotted at motor parks.
‘We need to reinstate that, the Alowonle led executives is the only recognized leadership of the Osun state NURTW both by the National leadership of the union and by the Osun state Government.
‘The Osun state Governor hereby directs all our security agents to flush out Asiri Eniba and his gang from all our motor parks without further delay as he has no legal basis to be there in all ramifications.
‘The Government states that, as soon as the security of our parks improves, the NURTW led by Comrade Wakeel Nurudeen Alowonle will continue to operate normally in various parts of the state smoothly without hindrance.’ He wrte.