Tokyo is a dreamer - NURTW

Oyo State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has described the claim of its former chairman, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola alias Tokyo that he remains the chairman of the council as a pipe dream that can never see the light of the day.In a statement issued on Wednesday in Ibadan, which was signed by both the chairman of the council's caretaker committee, Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde and the state secretary, Comrade Akin James, the council wondered why he would institute a suit against the union if he was still the chairman.According to the statement, 'such a claim from someone who turned Oyo State into a theatre of war with so many people losing their lives just because of his lust for money does not come as a surprise because he thrives on bloodletting.' The council, which alleged that the intention of the former chairman was to foist trouble in the state, added that, 'Tokyo failed to inform the public that he instituted a case at the National Industrial Court with suit No NICN/LA/333/2012, which is ongoing where he prayed the court to restrain all the respondents from conducting the Oyo State delegates conference of the NURTW to elect new officers and a new state executive of the union pending the determination of the suit. If he is the chairman, why the suit''The council, therefore, urged members of the public to disregard and discountenance the claim of the former chairman, saying that he was merely nursing an unrealisable ambition.'Oyo State council of the NURTW has gone beyond the era of brigandage and thuggery. We shall never return to a time when anyone or group would hold the council by the jugular and turn the whole state into pandemonium. Oyo State wants peace and that has been the experience since the current leadership took over, ' the statement concluded.
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