Leadership crisis is looming within the oil and gas workers’ union, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) as one of its arms, Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) on Thursday gave the umbrella body eighteen days ultimatum to conduct election.
The PTD today queried Igwe Achese’s leadership over delay in holding election since the expiration of its two-term tenure on October 2017.
The union, in a letter signed by Mr Salimon Oladiti, branch national chairman (PTD) and Mr. Sunday Ochibejivwe, national secretary (PTD) addressed to the NUPENG President, Igwe Achese, titled: “Breach of union’s constitution: An open invitation to intra union and industrial relations crisis in oil and gas industry,” directed NUPENG’s leadership to urgently set a process of convening the union’s National Delegates Conference on or before March 26, 2018.
The letter partly reads: “We are all aware that Comrade Igwe Achese and his team of National Executive Council (NEC) were elected and duly sworn in December 2009 for the first term of four years and re-elected again in October 2013 in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State for tenure of four years for the second term.
“He has served the two consecutive terms provided in the union’s constitution which legally ends in October 2017. Yet, Comrade Igwe Achese and his team illegally extended the tenure beyond October 2017, where at a Central Working Committee (CWC) and NEC meetings of the union in December, 2017, the matter generated heated the debate, you as the General Secretary requested for grace of 90 days within which you will convene the national delegates conference”.
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