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We’re Not Weapons For Economic Sabotage, You Can’t Place Us On Red Alert For Strike’

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3 months ago

August 23, 2024

Kayode Sanni-Arewa

… PTD Warns NUPENG General Secretary, Afolabi

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of NUPENG has taken a swipe at the General Secretary of the union, Afolabi Olawale, for placing oil workers “on red alert” in the wake of a letter from the Deputy Commissioner of Police, IRT, directing the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Joe Ajaero to appear at the Force Headquarters, on August 20, and warning that he would be arrested if he failed to honour the invitation.

Afolabi in a circular had reportedly notified all NUPENG organs and members nationwide on Thursday, August 22, 2024 to be prepared for an industrial action should the Police operatives apprehend the President of the NLC, Ajaero.

Meanwhile, the NLC had, through its lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, written to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, explaining why the NLC President could not honour the August 20 date, while also assuring that Ajaero would honour the Police invitation on August 29 and requested that the Police furnish him with details and the nature of the allegations.

However, in a show of disappointment and discontent to this development, stakeholders and elders of the PTD in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri Zones, Comrades Tajudeen Abubakar, Joseph Dagogo-Jack, and Blessing Dafinone in a jointly signed press statement, said on Friday that incessant use of phrases and words that could destabilize the country on a matter that is already being handled legally was a reflection of failed leadership, arrogance, and lack of men of honour at the helms of the union’s affairs in NUPENG, stressing that PTD members are not tools for economic sabotage and national destabilization.

The statement reads in parts:

“We are strongly in solidarity with NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero but take exception to a ploy by Afolabi Olawale the General Secretary of NUPENG whose attempt was to portray PTD members as tools for economic sabotage and national destabilization. We however commend the NLC leadership for allowing the industrial impasse to be handled by a legal luminary, Mr Femi Falana who is a genius in handling human rights violations and abuses. PTD will completely dissociate itself from selfish and unpatriotic adventurers who only exploit every opportunity to sabotage the nation in the guise of defending the leader of a labour centre.

“This is a wrong time for strike mongers to flex muscles and further cripple the socio-economic activities of our country in the midst of fuel scarcity, hunger, famine and hardship. This is also a deliberate action to create panic, shop for relevance and look for an opportunity to gain presence on the pages of newspapers. No one will be allowed to use the name of the union to destroy Nigeria and derail the progress being made by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR.

“NUPENG National Secretariat should rather concentrate on how to obey court rulings/verdicts and allow peace and harmony to reign in PTD by creating a chance for popular and legitimate leaders to run the affairs of PTD national leadership under Comrade Osesua without rancor. The pitiful posture of our parent union which has been solely hijacked by the General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale, who is known for engaging in forum shopping, blackmail, contempt of Court and use of sentiments to foist on Government, NNPC and other stakeholders in the oil and gas industry has been completely decimated through legal instruments, this is our joy and a resounding victory for us.

“Once again PTD must be allowed to breathe such that its members could peacefully and conveniently be proud and better for what they are doing as they continue to traverse the length and breadth of Nigeria through distribution and transportation of Petroleum products and supply of gas to Nigerians in their homes, offices and factories.

“We also take this opportunity to inform all PTD members across board that we are very close to a total judicial victory, whereby things will be done by a constitutionally recognized and legitimate leadership of Comrade Lucky Osesua and Comrade Dayyabu Garga, Comrade Humble Obinna Power and others through the grace of God Almighty and the support of all our members and other relevant stakeholders including our unbiased judiciary in the temple of justice ” the statement said.

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Bury the thought, it’s not your destiny to be president – Wike’s Aide carpets Atiku

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17 minutes ago

November 15, 2024

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Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka, has told former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to jettison his ambition to govern the country in 2027, saying the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party PDP presidential candidate was not destined to rule the country.

Olayinka in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said “The PDP presidential ticket will no longer be available to be wasted by serial betrayals of the party, who are obviously suffering the consequences of their past sins against the party and its members”.

Insisting that Atiku should perish the thought of contesting the 2027 presidential election as candidate of the PDP, Olayinka said “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and those egging him on for their benefits should let the PDP breathe.”

FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike had said during a live media parley in his office in Abuja on Wednesday that there would be no chance for Atiku, who was the 2023 Presidential candidate of the PDP to secure the party’s ticket in 2027.

Reacting through his Media Aide, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku had alluded to his defeat of Wike to pick the 2023 PDP presidential ticket as well as the former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, to emerge as the candidate in 2019.

However, in a statement yesterday, Olayinka, said Atiku’s “celebration of his narrow and fraudulent defeat of Wike in the 2022 PDP primary was funny and childish”, adding that “it is like Arsenal fans jumping to the rooftops to celebrate the club’s narrow defeat of Super Falcons.”

He said: “That Atiku is venerating himself for contesting PDP ticket with Wike and Tambuwal, people who were just a little above 25 as of 1993, when he contested the Social Democratic Party SDP presidential primary and came third, is the more reason he needs to go home and rest and stop acting like the proverbial cock that failed to realize that it is now elderly.”

Describing Atiku as someone not destined to be president of Nigeria, Olayinka said; “It is obvious that he (Atiku) is paying the price of betraying the PDP in 2003, 2007 and 2014. If not, the same presidency he has contested twice and lost, could have been his to just pick if he had avoided being inordinately ambitious while he was Vice President.”

“It was this desperation that made him to contest for president as candidate of Action Congress in 2007, while still serving as Vice President, elected under the platform of the PDP. A serving Vice President joining others to form another party and contesting as candidate of the new party against his own party.

That’s Alhaji Atiku Abubakar!

“Most importantly, Atiku’s conscience will continue to prick him on his roles in Lagos in 2023, and I am sure that even his apology to PDP members in 2018 can never remove from his body, that garment of betrayal.
“Therefore, it is again being sounded to his ears and those of the people lying to him that he is the only one who can win the presidency for the PDP that the ticket of the party will not be for someone like him, who will lose election and run to Dubai, only to come back two years to another election”, Olayinka added

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Confusion As ‘Baltasar Engonga’ was cornered and fl0gged by husbands of the women he sl3eps with

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24 minutes ago

November 15, 2024

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A man dubbed Zimbabwe’s own “Baltasar” faced violent retribution from a group of enraged husbands after being accused of having affairs with their wives.

In a video shared by Crimewatch Zimbabwe on X (formerly Twitter), several men from the Mapostori sect were seen beating the man, holding him down while others struck him with what appeared to be rubber sticks.

The video, recorded by a witness and later posted on social media, shows the men interrogating him. At one point, one of the attackers questions, “How many women have you slept with, and why did you do it?” Reports indicate that the man allegedly engaged in these relationships after some women claimed their husbands were not satisfying them.

Social media reactions were swift, with users tagging the police to intervene and arrest the men involved in the assault. Many viewers expressed shock, noting a recent rise in arrests related to assaults on cheating partners and their spouses.