Tanker Drivers Pass Confidence Vote On PTD, NUPENG Leaderships

Concerned tanker drivers from assorted parts of the state person raised the alarm implicit nationalist statements attributed to a faceless radical operating nether the level of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Elders Forum.

They accused the group, which they claimed was not recognised by the PTD bylaws oregon the NUPENG Constitution, of disseminating falsehoods to the public.

Recall that Comrades Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale, President and General Secretary of NUPENG, respectively, issued a connection connected Sunday alerting the nationalist and information agencies that the alleged PTD Elders Forum consisted of infiltrators with a sinister motive to sow discontent wrong the ranks of the genuine enactment of the Tanker Drivers Branch of NUPENG.

The NUPENG leaders besides stated that Comrade Augustine Egbon is the National Chairman of PTD-NUPENG, duly elected by members astatine its Branch Delegates Conference held successful Lagos connected July 3, 2024.

Addressing journalists astatine a property briefing successful Lagos, tanker drivers from the Kaduna, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Warri Zones disowned the PTD Elders, asserting that they were fraudulent individuals masquerading arsenic tanker drivers.

One of the tanker drivers from the Kaduna Zone, Comrade Bashir Izalan, expressed his astonishment that a faceless radical was claiming rank of PTD-NUPENG.

He said, “We bash not person thing similar PTD Elders successful the hierarchy of PTD-NUPENG. We bash not recognise them. The lone acknowledged nationalist president we cognize is Comrade Egbon.

“His enactment is transparent; helium gives america a consciousness of belonging due to the fact that we tin spell anyplace successful the state and consciousness astatine home. If we autumn ill, we person security and hospitals wherever we tin person treatment.

“If we brushwood immoderate issues, whether with our companies oregon vehicles, the national is ever acceptable and consenting to assist, arsenic drivers tin attack immoderate adjacent portion astatine immoderate clip and explicate their situation, and the national volition enactment to assistance them. Even if you are successful Lagos and question to Kano oregon Kauran Namoda, determination is idiosyncratic disposable to code your problems there.

“The national is consistently disposable and prepared to assistance america and resoluteness our issues, adjacent earlier the motortruck owners are alert of them.”

Speaking connected behalf of tanker drivers successful the Lagos Zone, Comrade Itanola Abiodun told reporters that the impostors bash not beryllium to the Union and urged information agencies to apprehend them for prosecution.

According to him, “Everyone who belongs to a national has a portion and a portion wherever that portion is located, and they person a PTD branch. The units from which they assertion to originate bash not exist. We successful those zones bash not cognize them.

“Their names are not known to america astatine all. They should specify the units to which they beryllium truthful that discerning minds tin verify their authenticity.

“They cannot adjacent authorities the units oregon zones they beryllium to. They bash not talk for us. They are impostors, hired to origin chaos successful our union.

“We each person a consciousness of belonging successful PTD. We privation to beryllium portion of PTD-NUPENG due to the fact that the enactment of our umbrella body, which is NUPENG, provides america with a consciousness of belonging and is ever determination for america erstwhile we look challenges with our employers.”

Additionally, Comrade Chukwudi Okafor from the Port Harcourt Zone dismissed the assertion that the enactment of PTD-NUPENG profits excessively from check-off dues and loading fees paid by tanker drivers. He described the allegation arsenic unfounded and uncharitable, stating that the funds generated from check-off dues and payments for loading astatine depots were directed towards addressing the needs of the mean tanker operator successful the signifier of wellness security and urgent payment needs. These are financed by motortruck owners (NARTO), who are the owners of the vehicles.