Fresh crisis erupted today at Adeniji Adele Motor park on Lagos Island between factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW.
According to a police source, two persons were reported killed during the violent clash.
Details of the cause of the clash and identities of the victims were sketchy at press time.
The election of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Lagos State turned bloody last week Thursday when a popular businessman, Alhaji Ola-Shehu Ekeniojuoti, was shot dead on Lagos Island by gunmen suspected to be supporters of one of the NURTW chairmanship candidates.
The gunmen also injured two members of the union during a mayhem that broke out between members of factions of the union at Iyana-Ipaja and spread to Lagos Island where Alhaji Ola-Shehu was killed.
The two injured persons were admitted in a hospital on Lagos Island.
P.M.NEWS learnt that trouble started after the NURTW National President, Alhaji Nasiru Yasiu, during a closed-door meeting at the union’s Abule Egba office, stated that the Lagos State NURTW election would hold at a date to be announced later, since the five contestants to the number one seat in the state could not present a consensus candidate.
The former chairman, Alhaji Rafiu Akanni Olohunwa’s supporters were said to have been caught off guard as their expectation was that the NURTW National President would hand pick and endorse their man, at the said meeting.
Yasiu’s announcement led to clashes at Iyana-Ipaja and later Obalende on Lagos Island, where Alhaji Ola-Shehu was alleged to have been shot dead by supporters of a chairmanship candidate.
The deceased was said to be the brother of a staunch supporter of NURTW strongman in Oshodi, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya a.k.a. MC Oluomo.
The deceased’s brother, Abu Ekeniojuoti a.k.a. Abu Stainless, was the former chairman of NURTW on Lagos Island.
Some of the chairmanship contestants include the former state chairman of NURTW, Alhaji Olohunwa; the former state treasurer, Alhaji Akinsanya; Tajudeen Agbede and Alhaji Sope.
The contestants have been persuaded to step down for one another to make way for a consensus candidate to no avail. (PM News)
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