{"id":348517,"date":"2025-10-06T01:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348517"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:17:52","slug":"dangote-nupeng-feud-tanker-drivers-disown-ptd-elders-forum-seek-impostors-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348517","title":{"rendered":"Dangote\/NUPENG Feud: Tanker Drivers Disown \u2018PTD Elders Forum ‘, Seek Impostors’ Prosecution\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Petroleum Tanker Drivers(PTD), an affiliate union of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers(NUPENG), has disowned a group parading itself as the ‘PTD Elders Forum’ amid a feud with Dangote Refinery.<\/div>\n
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The drivers from across the Kaduna, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Warri zones, during a Press Briefing, at the Weekend, described members of the said forum as fake impostors with no recognition under PTD or NUPENG constitutions and hired to wreck havoc on the union.<\/div>\n
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They appealed to security agencies to investigate and prosecute those behind the forum.<\/div>\n
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Speaking on behalf of Kaduna Zone, Bashir Izalan, said the group was unknown to PTD, stressing that Egbon\u2019s leadership had been transparent and responsive to members\u2019 welfare.<\/div>\n
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He noted that drivers benefited from union-backed insurance, medical support and intervention in workplace disputes.<\/div>\n
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Representative of the Lagos Zone, Itanola Abiodun, maintained that the so-called elders were not members of the union, pointing out that every legitimate PTD member belonged to a unit and zone.<\/div>\n
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He urged the group to identify their units if they were genuine members, insisting that they were \u201chired hands\u201d out to destabilise the union.<\/div>\n
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In his words, \u201cEverybody who belongs to a union has a unit and zone where that unit is located. Then, they have the PTD branch. Those units where they claimed they come from do not exist. We in those zones do not know them.<\/div>\n
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“Their names are not known to us at all. They should mention the units they belong to for discerning minds to vouch for their authenticity.<\/div>\n
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“They cannot even say the units or zone they belong to. They are not speaking for us. They are impostors, hired to wreak havoc in our union”.<\/div>\n
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From Port Harcourt Zone, Chukwudi Okafor, dismissed allegations that PTD leadership mismanaged check-off dues and loading fees, clarifying that the funds, contributed by truck owners, are used for drivers\u2019 health insurance and welfare.<\/div>\n
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He said members were satisfied with how resources are managed, urging the government to support PTD.<\/div>\n
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Dennis Akore of Warri Zone alleged that the controversy was linked to former PTD members who lost out in the July, last year\u2019s delegates\u2019 conference, claiming that the group was attempting to regain control of the union after being voted out by drivers.<\/div>\n
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Earlier, NUPENG President, Comrade Williams Akporeha, and General Secretary, Comrade Afolabi Olawale, had also warned against the activities of the \u201cPTD Elders Forum,\u201d describing them as infiltrators working to sow disaffection within the union.<\/div>\n
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Petroleum Tanker Drivers(PTD), an affiliate union of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers(NUPENG), has disowned a group parading itself as the ‘PTD Elders Forum’ amid a feud with Dangote Refinery. The drivers from across the Kaduna, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Warri zones, during a Press Briefing, at the Weekend, described members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":348560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348565,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348517\/revisions\/348565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}