The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has inaugurated a 16-member caretaker committee to pilot its affairs in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony on Friday in Abuja, Suleiman Abdulkadir, acting general secretary of the union, announced that “the caretaker committee earlier appointed by Alh. Najeem Yasin led faction, is illegal and dissolved”.

“In view of the fact that nature abhors vacuum, a caretaker committee comprising of 16 members has been constituted,” he said

Mr Abdulkadir announced Ajibola Ashimolowo as the chairman, Abdulkarim Shuaibu as deputy chairman, Saidu Musa as treasurer while Abdullahi Galadima would serve as secretary of the caretaker committee.

Some of the other members of the committee included Yusuf Danbaba, Abdulazeez Jaru, Taiwan Osobu, Mohammed Abdullahi and Saidu Karu.

The caretaker committee members also included Yakubu Suleiman, Anthony Eya, and Angelo Abaji, among others.

The NURTW national secretary said that the committee would serve for three months.

It would be recalled that the NURTW had been enmeshed in a leadership crisis resulting in court action.

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Abuja on March 11, affirmed Tajudeen Baruwa as the re-elected president of the union.

This was just as the court sacked the Mr Agbede-led caretaker committee of the NURTW.

Justice O. O. Oyewumi, while delivering her judgement on the leadership crisis rocking the union, held that the delegates’ conference across the six zonal councils held on May 24, 2023, where Mr Baruwa emerged as president for a second term in office was valid.

The judge also restrained the former president of the union, Najeem Yasin, who was the board of trustees chairman, from interfering in the day-to-day running of union’s affairs.

(NAN)