The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has urged the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) not to meddle in its internal crises.
The Acting General Secretary of the union, Kayode Agbeyangi made the call in his address at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
Agbeyangi alleged that the recent outbreak of violence at the National Secretariat of the union was due to the interference of the NLC for selfish reasons and said that the NLC has gone overboard in expressing its interest in its internal affairs.
“The NLC took a one-sided decision that further threatened our effort to unite all interests and move the union forward.
“It is very sad and unfortunate that the umbrella body of workers that is expected to protect the welfare and rights of all workers has turned itself into a tool used for an outbreak of violence and favouritism.
“Also the flagrant abuse of constitutional provisions of the union by attempting to impose the erstwhile President Alh. Tajudeen Baruwa on the union whose tenure expired on Aug. 28,” he said.
He, however, called on the Joe Ajaero-led NLC to discard their bias and ethnic sentiments towards the former General Secretary who is their kinsman, urging him to refrain from further blackmailing of the union in their desperate bid to authenticate illegality.
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