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Controversy has
continued to trail the recent general meeting of the Ondo State chapter
of the Nigeria Labour Congress. The meeting which took place a few
weeks ago was almost marred by protest. Although, Bosede Daramola,
emerged the new chairman of the labour union in the state, workers from
the private sector have rejected the outcome of the election, insisting
that its candidate, Kayode Sotire, was the elected chairman. The
private sector workers described the emergence of Mr. Daramola as a
farce, saying those in the public sector had ruled the union for eight
years, arguing the private sector ought to have produced the next
chairman of the union in the state.

The group claimed
Mr Daramola was a stooge imposed on the union by the outgone chairman,
Momodu Braimoh. They wondered why the congress was allowed to hold when
they had agreed to postpone the election.

Mr Braimoh, however said the election was duly conducted in the
presence of the two officials from the National Secretariat, Abuja, who
served as returning officers. He noted that five unions out of 26
pulled out of the election on the pretence that the election had been
postponed through a radio announcement by the state government. But the
former chairman said they could not take directive from the state
government, stressing that only the National Executive Council of the
union could order postponement of the election.