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An Ibadan-based group, Touch-Bearers,
has called on the Olubadan of Ibadan, Samuel Odulana, Odugade 1, to
intervene in the internal wrangling of the Oyo state council of the
National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to avoid the
bloodletting associated with the protracted fight.

The group, in a statement made
available to journalists on Sunday and jointly signed by Muse Popoola
and Dupe Adewoye, Chairman and secretary respectively, also called on
other eminent Ibadan indigenes to call the leaders of the two major
factions in the union, Messrs Lateef Akionsola (aka Tokyo) and Lateef
Salako (aka Elewe-Omo) to order for the peace and tranquility of the
state.

“NURTW crisis should be seen as a tiny
spark of fire that can burn a whole house down if care is not taken,”
says the group, while stressing that since the two factional leaders
are from Ibadan, they must consider sheathing their swords and allow
peace and security of lives and property to reign in the land.

The release also urged the state
government to lift the proscription order on the union and allow it to
continue to function like other registered trade union in the state, as
it equally urged the leaders of the union to stop giving the world the
impression that their union is a military arm of the successive state
governments used to intimidate political opponents.

Reiterating the need for the Oba to intervene, the posited that
“only bastards in the society can disagree with the orders and
directives of a Royal father. The two leaders should see each other as
brothers, after all, Eleweomo is like a son to Tokyo”.