The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has debunked the rumour that it is fighting a crisis in its union, News About Nigeria reports.
The General Secretary of NUPENG, Afolabi Olawale, stated this in a letter written to the management of Director Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical, DPRP, lbeju-Lekki, Lagos, clarifying that the rumour is false.
He noted that the rumour was being peddled by mischief-makers with the intent to create a crisis and, in the process, drag the Nigerian oil and gas industry, into an avoidable industrial crisis that would bring nothing but hardship to Nigerians.
He maintained that NUPENG remained a single and indivisible trade union organisation under the leadership of Comrade Prince Williams Akporeha as the National President and Comrade Afolabi Olawale as the General Secretary of the Union.
“We write in response to certain media publications on your response to a purported letter from a lawyer from Edoga Enenche and Co. alleging that there is some sort of “division in the Union,” and we want to firmly and strongly deny and denounce such situation in our Union.
“The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers is an indivisible Trade Union organization under the leadership of Comrade Prince Williams Akporeha as the National President and Comrade Afolabi Olawale as the General Secretary of the Union. For the records, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers is a credible and responsible Trade Union Organization duly registered and recognized under the Trade Union Act (As Amended) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with over 120 branches across the country and out of which the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch is one of them.
“Further for the records, the National Delegates’ Conference for the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the Union was successfully convened and conducted on the 31st n of October, 2023 at the University of Ibadan Conference Centre in compliance with the Constitution of the Union and Bye-laws of the PTD branch, with 680 delegates from 170 units of the branch in attendance,” the letter reads in part.
