PTD Alerts Police IG, DSS Director-Common Over Plot By NUPENG To Harrass & Arrest Its Nationwide Officers

Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Department of NUPENG has formally appealed to the Inspector-Common of Police and the Director-Common of the Division of State Companies to not permit themselves for use as devices of persecution towards Comrade Fortunate Osesua-led management of PTD and different members of the Union who’re perceived to be unsupportive of the unpopular and  ‘sinking’ leaders of NUPENG.

PTD additionally decried the ploy by NUPENG to set the desk for a vicious muzzling of constitutionally assured free speech and proper to opinion of Union members particularly the management of PTD within the nation.

The Union members additional sought the eye of safety companies to not permit themselves to be distracted from concentrating on urgent Nationwide safety challenges within the nation, and must also distance themselves from the momentary confusion and disorientation within the Union attributable to the President, Common Secretary and the Nationwide Trustee of NUPENG. 

PTD maintained that any affinity with NUPENG over commerce union disputes by Regulation Enforcement Brokers may harm their fame, noting that the perceived rift or factionalism within the Union are already in Courts of competent jurisdiction; although NUPENG management based on PTD has stored on deceiving themselves and mendacity to most of the people that “there’s no division within the Union” and went on to additional declare they’re the true “beneficiaries” of the nice facet of the legislation, a declare PTD referred to as “tissue of lies”.

These assertions are contained in an announcement collectively signed by the leaders of a bunch whose members had been drawn from all of the 4 Zones of PTD, generally known as Involved PTD Elders League on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.

They embody Comrades Kolapo Muse-Showunmi, Khalid Adamu, Christopher Owheyre and Kingsley Amadi. These unionists complained bitterly about current distasteful occasions together with unwarranted harassment of perceived opponents of NUPENG leaders. They maintained that the state of affairs has precipitated severe issues to the rank and file of the union. They disclosed that NUPENG leaders have now gone into jittery mode, having realized their probabilities of remaining related has already vanished.

PTD described the current shenanigans of NUPENG leaders as a harmful menace to the Union’s existence and symptomatic of a failed Union that’s ready to show towards the members in a determined bid to hold on to energy towards the desire of a bigger variety of members throughout Nigeria who not trust in them however desire Osesua-led faction to stay the one professional Nationwide Government to steer the affairs of the Department’s management.

“We now have a terrifying state of affairs the place individuals are harassed for daring to say the reality, or to defend their rights and workplaces, or to aspire for sure elective workplaces and even specific their opinion concerning governance and administration within the Union. The continual  harassment, intimidation and arrest of NUPENG Nationwide elected officers and a recent try to arrest PTD leaders needs to be stopped forthwith by related authorities. Now we have notified our attorneys about this ugly pattern and our authorized group has accordingly completed the needful.

“We additionally condemn the humiliating arrest, detention and trial of nationwide officers as an abuse of energy and a gross violation of the rights of officers who had been performing their statutory duties.

“PTD as a Union calls for the rapid launch of the detained members and calls on the authorities to institute an intensive Investigation into their arrest, torture, and continued detention with a view to forestall recurrence.

PTD additionally needs to categorically state that the duo of NUPENG President Prince Williams Akporeha, and Common Secretary Afolabi Olawale have each testified as PW1 and PW2 on the FCT Excessive Courtroom Maitama admitting that Comrade Fortunate Osesua and 19 others standing trial earlier than the Courtroom ARE MEMBERS OF THE UNION, but they maintain addressing them as “ex-convicts”,  as “ex-leaders” of their deceptive publications. 

“We additionally use this medium to name for the intervention of the Director-Common of the DSS and the IGP to quash the frivolous trial of all detained members and guarantee their rapid launch.

“We additionally enchantment to our Labour-friendly President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to prevail on related authorities for justice on this matter. Civil Society Organisations and Organized Labour must also rise in defence of PTD and the rule of legislation, as harm to at least one is an harm to all. These stakeholders ought to come to the rescue of the Union, and forestall future intimidation and harassment of PTD members by safety companies. We urge all related authorities to take rapid motion to deal with this example earlier than it will get out of hand.

“We as nicely heard from good authority that the previous Nationwide PRO of NUPENG, Cogent Ojobor was arrested and remanded for nearly a month for revealing to the general public through social media how he was illegally expelled from the Union. It is usually a typical data that the unlawfully suspended Chairman of Port Harcourt Zone of NUPENG Samuel Mina was bursted at his residence and arrested, whereas NUPENG Nationwide Treasurer-Nationwide Ladies Committee, Comrade Queen Udeh has additionally cried out through her Fb web page that there’s a plan to arrest her too, and maintain her out of circulation.

“Nigerians who’ve been following NUPENG’s disaster have seen that the majority those that have overtly expressed themselves, or perceived to be nursing ambition for sure workplaces, together with NUPENG Presidency, at the moment are dealing with one trumped-up cost or the opposite, ostensibly meant to cow, discredit or present them the way in which out of the Union.

“The purpose is that NUPENG has refused to get up to the fact that members have already reached a consensus rejecting them and no quantity of threats, intimidation, or persecution with state equipment of energy can subjugate or make the members change that decided resolve to indicate the management of NUPENG the exit door. Nonetheless, the truth that this present management is leaving workplace in April 2026 has grow to be inevitable and nobody needs to be a part of their desperation to utterly destroy our Union earlier than their closing exit.”