The Osun State Government has clarified reports that it dissolved the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state, reaffirming that the executive led by Comrade Wakeel Alowonle remains the only recognised leadership of the union.
The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Alimi, made the clarification on x, following what the government described as widespread misinterpretation of the outcome of the State Security Council meeting.
According to the government, the Security Council only suspended the activities of the NURTW in all motor parks across the state pending the restoration of peace and order, stressing that the directive did not affect the union’s leadership.
The government alleged that a group led by Kazeen Oyewale, popularly known as Asiri Eniba, had wrongly interpreted the suspension as the dissolution of the Alowonle-led executive and claimed there was a vacuum to justify the inauguration of a caretaker committee.
the government maintained that Alowonle and his executive remain the substantive leadership of the union, directing security agencies to remove Asiri Eniba and his supporters from motor parks across the state.
