The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Ogun State on Monday said it was not involved in the recent spate of violence between rival members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state.
The union further denied an allegation that the chapter had instructed its members to disrupt any political gathering perceived to be against the interest of Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
The NURTW cautioned Senator Gbenga Kaka not to drag the union into the crisis rocking the APC.
The NURTW State Secretary, Sunday Yeye, who stated this at a news conference in Abeokuta, debunked the claims made by Kaka in some national dailies that the union had a hand in the violence unleashed recently on supporters at the party state secretariat, Abeokuta.
“It is a lie. We did not instruct our members to go against those who are anti-Amosun. It is a false allegation,” he said.
The Ogun NURTW secretary flanked by the state Chairman, Alhaji Akeem Adeosun, the state Vice Chairman, AlhajiAbiodun Akeem; and other union officials argued that nobody appeared at the venue of the violence in the name of the union or carried any banner that reflected the NURTW’s on the day of the violence.
Yeye however noted that the union’s constitution allowed its members the freedom to belong to any political party of their choice.
He stressed that members of the union, whom he described as professional drivers, were not thugs and should not be linked to any political violence.
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