The Branch stakeholders of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have called for the immediate resignation of embattled President and General Secretary of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrades Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale in order to give room for fresh air and stability in the union.
Penpushing reports that the call was contained in a statement signed by Comrade Preye Odede-Graham on behalf of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) elders and stakeholders, Comrades (Alhaji) Tajudeen Abubakar (Kaduna Zone), Chief (Comrade.) Edafe Osas (Warri Zone), Comrade Joseph Dagogo-Jack (JP) (Port Harcourt Zone) and Comrade Kolade Fadahunsi-Ojelabi (Lagos Zone).
The call came on the heels of ongoing industrial disputes between Dangote Refinery, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), and other industry Associations.
Penpushing further reports that Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) blamed the recent woes befalling Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), on the lacklustre attitude of the union’s President as well as intimidation, victimization and harassment of the members by the General Secretary which is at variance with the extant rules of the union as well as human dignity.
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) maintained that they no longer wanted to be used as attack dogs against the Nigerian government especially President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other players in the industrial ecosystem.
Penpushing also reports that the body lampooned leaders of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), over their failure to hail the tenacity of Dangote Refinery for standing against all odds to defeat the process pressure and market disruption with the 650,000 bpd capacity alongside with the 4000 CNG trucks tankers and 6000 truck cargoes totalling 10000 trucks costing N2 trillion to move the products to the consumers at no cost, with value added of over 40,000 jobs.
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) equally begged President Tinubu to ensure high tariffs increase to discourage fuel importation and add increased crude supply to Dangote Refinery with licence for oil exploration.
Penpushing reports that in same vein, they further advised the President to nationalise oil well so as to allow for proper dredging which majority licensed sites were desolate and moribund.
The body begged law enforcement agencies, anti-graft agents, industry regulators, Nigerian government, stakeholders in trade union, media, civil society, legal profession, among others to support them to commence the re-engineering of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), by showing Afolabi and Williams the exit doors from the union so that the petroleum industry could get the much-anticipated liberation.
“On this note, we therefore appeal to all our members in PTD and others in various branches not to be despaired, let us join hands together and win the battle against these common enemies and stop them once and for all, these multidimensional nonsense and slavery in the union must be hurriedly put to stop. United, we stand against every economic saboteur and enemy of progress in Nigeria’s economic powerhouse” the statement said.
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