Oyo State governor-elect, Mr Seyi Makinde, has invited the factional leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state to a meeting.
When asked on Fresh FM about his preparedness to stop the impending crisis in the union following the alleged move by its former acting chairman, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, and his supporters to take over the motor parks in the state on May 29, Makinde said his government would not tolerate violence in the state.
The engineer, who won the March 9 governorship poll in the state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, said, “Nobody is above the law. If anybody thinks because he voted for Seyi Makinde and is hell bent on circumventing the law, the law enforcement agencies are there to do their work.”
THE PUNCH quoted him as saying that he had invited the union leaders.
Lamidi, popularly called Auxiliary, is believed to have worked for Makinde’s election.
On the other hand, the acting chairman of the NURTW in the state, Alhaji Abideen Olajide, popularly known Ejiogbe, supported Mr Bayo Adelabu of the All Progressives Congress.
A leader of the union loyal to Auxiliary, Alhaji Gani Fakayode, said the transition from the current executive of the union to another would be violent-free.
The septuagenarian, who was also a state organising secretary of the NURTW during the tenure of Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, popularly known as Tokyo, said the union had a tradition and constitution guiding its operations.
