By Timothy Omobude
The leadership crisis rocking Edo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers of Nigeria (NURTWN) deepens as members petitioned Chief Odion Olayes' refusal to obey court judgment to the national body.
In a petition letter made available to DAILYPOST in Benin city, the state capital by Mr Saturday Oamen who is laying claim to the chairmanship position said, the union stipulates a maximum of two terms of four years each for all elective officers of the union.
In his petition he alleged that the National Industrial Court, Akure Decision in their March 13, 2018 judgment removed Odion Olaye as the state chairman of the union.
He said the failure of the sacked state chairman, Odion Olaye to swear-in Saturday Oamen as the substantive state chairman in obedience to the court judgment.
According to him, ' Olaye was first elected in 2003 and ought to have finished his two tenure of eight years each in 2011. He has spent nine over fifteen years. It worrisome that, in spite of the court judgment the he still hold on to the office.
"On the strength of the said judgment, with suit no NICN/BEN/12/2017 we are by this letter directing him to immediately vacate office as the state chairman of the union in strict obedience to the court order which state inter-allia"
our union being a creation of the law and a law abiding organization
that believes in the rule of law. We were surprised to see on the 16th
October, 2019 as we saw the national chairman, Chief Baruwa on TV who
incidentally was the national treasurer at the time paying a courtesy call on the state governor purportedly introducing chief Olaye as the state chairman"
He however called on the national leadership of the union to obey the court judgment by swearing him in as the substantive chairman.
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