A reconciliatory meeting called at the instance of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) to reconcile the warring NURTW leaders, has ended in a deadlock as southwest elders of the union rejected the positions of the reconciliation committee but insisted that rule of law must be respected for justice to prevail

The NLC had set up a reconciliation committee, headed by its Secretary General, Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja, to reconcile the warring factions of the NURTW.

The committee had at a meeting proposed that “the purportedly elected officers and the existing national officers should be merged to form an expanded union’s National Administrative Council (NAC) which is in itself an illegality, as union constitution does not recognise any expended NAC”

But rejecting the proposals, the southwest leaders in a letter titled; OBJECTION TO THE TERM OF SETTLEMENT PROPOSED BY THE RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE and signed by the duo of Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede and Alhaji Akeem Adeosun, National vice President and National Trustee respectively stated that “we respectively reject the term of the committee. It was included in our position that led to the formation of this committee that the appointment of these officers by the NURTW president was unlawful and against the spirit of the union constitution. But surprisingly, the chairman of the reconciliation committee seems not to truly appreciate the fundamental issues involved.”

The Southwest leaders of the union further stated that “the officers as presently selected by the union president are unconstitutional, having not been elected in line with the union constitution. We cannot, therefore, be a party to such illegality.”

For true reconciliation, the southwest leaders proposed that the union president must revoke the suspension of all members in various southwest zones and ensure total restoration of union activities in Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Lagos and Osun States.

They also demanded that all three (3) representatives from the southwest zone (Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, Alhaji Skeem Adeosun and Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa) must seek a fresh mandate from members of the union from the zone. (Tribune)

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