Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta
Crisis brew at the Ago – Iwoye branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State as members of the branch on Sunday called for the immediate removal of the caretaker committee chairman, Akeula Shefiu, over alleged “victimisation and threat to life.”
In a “Vote of no Confidence” letter signed by 27 members of the branch and addressed to the chairman of the Transport Committee Chairman in the state, Sunday Adeniyi, the aggrieved unionists who also claimed to be All Progressives Congress(APC) caucus members in Ago – Iwoye, accused Akeula Shefiu of allocating their “slots to members of the opposition political party.”
The letter which was also copied to the the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Tokunbo Talabi, the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dare Kadiri, the caretaker chairman and secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Yemi Sanusi and Ayo Olubori, was made available to reporters in Abeokuta, the state capital.
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They alleged that the branch chairman equally caused the arbitrary arrest and detention of majority of the branch members, and prevented their vehicles from loading in the park.
The aggrieved members also accused the chairman of engaging suspected cultists to harass and intimidate them, while using his position to cause “serious public disturbance and fight between members of the union and the public.”
The members, who insisted that Akeula’s position as the Ago Iwoye branch chairman has brought rancour and disunity to the branch, however, urged the concerned authorities to appoint a new chairman capable of paddling the affairs of the union in order to forestall break down of law and order in the branch.
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