Alhaji Mustafa Adekunle (Sego), Alhaji Mustapha Adewale (Yaro), Chief Joseph Falope (Olofooro), and Comrade Ademola Odudu, the council chairs of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the Southwest, which includes the states of Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo, have responded to Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, the troubled former union president, regarding false accusations.

In a Save Our Soul (SOS) letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Baruwa accused Femi Gbajabiamila, the president’s chief of staff, of supporting Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya’s NURTW leadership.

The chairman accused Baruwa of making up stories to win over the public and called him “a drowning fellow, who will cling to anything to survive.”

They said that Baruwa’s team had previously placed the blame for their issues on Alhaji Najeem Yasin, the former president of the NURTW, and President Tinubu, “only to suddenly transfer the burden to Gbajabiamila.”
To correct the record, the chairmen stated that Baruwa’s disobedience of a court order was the root of the union’s issues.

They stated: “A few irate union members in the Southwest filed a lawsuit against him in 2023 at the National Industrial Court in Lagos, contesting his eligibility to run for a second term in office. In her wisdom, the sitting judge directed the parties to keep things as they were while the lawsuit contesting Baruwa’s eligibility for a second term was being decided.

But in a desperate attempt to circumvent the ruling, Baruwa held a “kangaroo delegate meeting” without consulting the court. Baruwa disregarded the well-known adage that “he who comes to equity must come with clean hands,” according to the chairs.