Face reality, your tenure has expired, Agbede tells Baruwa

Face reality, your tenure has expired, Agbede tells Baruwa

The newly inaugurated leader of National Union of RoadTransport Workers ( NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, has advised the immediate past President of the union, Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, to stop issuing empty threats and face the reality of the expiration of his tenure.

Agbede stated this while reacting to statement credited to Alhaji Saliu Adamu of Nasarawa State and Alhaji Ibrahim Sanda Kuje of Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) councils, threatening bloodbath at the union’s national secretariat.

He told Baruwa in a statement on Sunday to stop dreaming about his chances of coming back to the union as president, stating that he had done enough damage to the NURTW in the last four years.

Agbede regretted that the authors of the statement are ignorant of the current events in the union.

“As at today, NURTW is back in Lagos. Our men with their white and green uniform are operating in Lagos now. And very soon, other states in the southwest will join the union. We are trying to correct the mistakes made by Baruwa. He arrogantly destroyed NURTW in the southwest.

Agbede advised Baruwa to stop blackmailing and blaming a former president of the union, Alhaji Najeem Yasin, as architect of his problems.

“Our former President, Alhaji Yasin, is an elder statesman who is playing the role of father to all. But the question for Baruwa and his gang is: ‘Do you expect Alhaji Yasin to fold his arms and watch you destroy the union he and others laboured to build? No reasonable leader will stand and watch some inexperienced people destroy the legacies they built.”

He berated Baruwa for neglecting all efforts and advice from elders before the problems aggravated.

Agbede called on security agencies to monitor the activities of Baruwa and his gang as their threat to cause bloodbath should not be treated with levity.