PTD Condemns 2 Years Anniversary Disaster, Blasts NUPENG Management Over Controversial Elections, Divisions, Wasteful Expenditures, & Set up Of Ghost Nationwide Chairman

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Department of NUPENG has condemned in strongest time period the 2 years inside divisions, reckless and wasteful expenditures, and a disaster of id inside its circle after admitting that the hijack of the Department by the President and the Normal Secretary, Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale has led to the manipulation of its extant guidelines and destruction of the Union’s operations and administration.

The aggrieved PTD important stakeholders often known as “Involved Elders League” additionally cited desecration of its two sacred Delegates Conferences, abuse of Court docket orders, high-handedness, wasteful expenditures, corruption/avarice, and disrespect for elders/founding fathers of the Union, including that these components are liable for the protracted woes within the Department since October 31, 2023, exactly two years in the past.

PTD in an announcement made obtainable to newsmen after a closed-door assembly amidst tight safety which held at Oriental Lodge on Friday, October 31, 2025 mentioned they’re saddened by the extended disaster which have ravaged the Union for twenty-four months and nonetheless no signal to salvage its prospects and put its home so as.

Based on the collectively signed assertion by Comrades Kolapo Muse-Showunmi, Khalid Adamu, Christopher Owheyre and Kingsley Amadi, PTD maintained that the October 31, 2023, and Wednesday July 3, 2024 Particular Delegates Conferences held in Abuja twice, the place Fortunate Osesua was elected Nationwide Chairman stay the legitimate and legit electoral processes recognised by the legislation and members of the Department.

It additionally highlighted how Fortunate Osesua, had earlier been elected Nationwide Chairman on thirtieth of June 2022, however his election alongside different members of his govt was nullified on twenty fourth of July 2023, by Justice Bashar Akali of the Nationwide lndustrial Court docket, NIC, Yenagoa Division.

The union defined that the annulment adopted a petition by one Godwin Ewhrudjakpor, difficult the eligibility of Osesua to contest, and the legality of the newly permitted Bye Legal guidelines of the Department used for the election. The Drivers argued that the mentioned nullification had since been appealed in court docket and that they’re certain of victory in file time. 

PTD additional expressed disappointment that the Union has performed 3 Delegates Conferences inside three years again to again, and none had given any headway to the Union because of infractions like discrimination, contempt of Court docket, electoral course of manipulation, lack of ideological readability and non-inclusivity amongst different issues.

The PTD’s technique seems to revolve round rekindling outdated alliances and mending fractured relationships however its efforts have been mentioned to be persistently stalled by the overzealous, unbridled and belligerent Normal Secretary, who most well-liked to sink with the disaster moderately than make the Union attain any peace or progress.

PTD assertion reads partially, 

“Right this moment made it precisely two years for the reason that protracted disaster in PTD broke out on Tuesday October 31, 2023. It’s a large disgrace that the management of NUPENG significantly the President and the Normal Secretary Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale are by no means perturbed about this ugly and damaging scenario just because they’re benefiting and relishing within the 24 months disaster for his or her private good points and egocentric pursuits on the expense of the Union, particularly PTD which is adjudged to be the goose that lays the golden eggs. 

“With out mincing phrases, as we speak Friday October 31, 2025 must be a mourning day for NUPENG due to the reputational and monumental injury its shenanigan has triggered since 2023. It’s a two years of anniversary disaster that ought to name for introspection, inventory taking, repentance, and reconciliation if solely they’re discerning and forward-looking. That is the time to positively change the trajectory of the Union and all the prevailing Branches below it.

“We additionally need the world to know that we now have additionally not backed down on our demand that the President of NUPENG, Normal Secretary and their surrogates in PTD ought to refund all unlawful dues and levies collected from truck drivers and the administration at MRS depot and Dangote Refinery or face litigation and ‘worldwide ridicule’. This 14-day ultimatum which was issued on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 has lengthy lapsed. As these people have did not dignify our name with any response we now have subsequently suggested our authorized counsels three of whom are Senior Advocate of Nigeria to accordingly serve them discover. We might replace the general public on this important case as issues progress on this regard.

“We’re additionally shocked to see that that the gross misconduct, manipulation and abuse of energy by these powermongers are but to abate simply as we learnt that the Chairman of the Lagos Zone of PTD, Saheed Gbolahan Adigun is now demanding from the Lagos Zonal Council to do him a refund of virtually 1 billion naira (over 940 million naira). Nigerians, are you able to see how PTD’s assets are being squandered and wasted with out transparency or accountability? Two Delegates Conferences in two years, Dangote’s refinery Battle, Ejigbo Battle, two failed elections in Ibadan 2023, and in Lagos 2024, and so forth. 

“The Union has misplaced route and has failed its members, however prefers to extort and milk them dry to fulfill the egocentric fantasies of a particular few. Virtually 1 billion naira as refund to a Department Zonal Chairman??? The questions are, the place did he get the cash from outdoors the Union work? Who was Saheed Gbolahan Adigun earlier than he joined the Union? Who’s he anticipating to refund him that amount of cash? So, a person sponsored two elections in two years again to again?

It’s excessive time EFCC investigated him within the curiosity of our members and the nation.

“Up until as we speak nobody can account for the whereabouts of the imposter that NUPENG planted in PTD as Nationwide Chairman in individual of Augustine Egbon. He has not been attending conferences and he has not been responding to correspondences despatched to him, neither does he return his calls. That is ridiculous because the Department is now below “auto pilot”, for the reason that Nationwide Chairman has introduced himself as a ghost and has been rendered incommunicado and invisible, and NEC assembly has been cancelled twice and now postponed indefinitely.

“What we’ve additionally seen inside these two years are incessant Police harassment, indiscriminate detentions, a number of court docket instances, two failed elections, failed reconciliation prospects, elevated hardships for majority of the members: Unit Executives, applicant drivers and drivers on wheels, shedding essentially the most viable income producing amenities (Dangote Refinery/MRS) to greed, Augustine Egbon’s mysterious disappearance from the Union’s actions, and rather more. 

“NUPENG is so confused that it solely embraces wasteful spending over necessary issues. Final December it commissioned its multi-storey tower and rolled out drums in entrance of cameras and several other media influencers. The query once more is that of what good or use is that this edifice? Your administrative workers on the Nationwide Secretariat in Jibowu, Lagos are lower than 20 in quantity. What do you want an 8-storey constructing for, which value you billions of naira? However the welfare of your members, workers, veterans/elders are by no means your precedence. Such cruelty and administrative indiscretion is unprecedented and laughable. We need to repeat once more that Afolabi Olawale’s emergence as NUPENG Normal Secretary is a transparent case of recruitment error. He wields energy in a tyrannical and irresponsible method.

“NUPENG management as at the moment constituted is clearly taking part in a really harmful sample of politics to elbow out the bonafide members and key leaders of PTD from the excessive desk on the Union’s conclave. Allow us to be aware right here that PTD is “the goose that lays the golden eggs”. It’s most unlucky that these similar oppressors have pushed out all notable and devoted veterans of the Department; they’re nonetheless battling with Comrade Fortunate Osesua and his followers, they’re now focusing on to push out the foremost stakeholders of the PTD household, so as to have absolute management of the PTD Department; this is not going to stand and we hope that NUPENG management understands what it means to be sitting on a timed nuclear bomb.

“We the esteemed leaders of PTD are warning that if the management of NUPENG fails to overview, reverse, and rethink its methods and selections, its undoings will additional garbage the fame and integrity of the as soon as extremely revered NUPENG, each domestically and internationally. We will subsequently proceed this wrestle till the wrongs are rectified, and till justice ultimately prevails. We additionally use this legitimate alternative to enchantment to all our members and stakeholders in all of the 4 Zones of PTD in Nigeria to stay calm, peaceable, and legislation abiding, and we actually guarantee them that we gained’t disappoint or fail them,” PTD famous.