The National Union of Road Transport Workers were stopped from holding its delegate conference in Lafia, Nasarawa State on Wednesday night by the operatives of the Department of Security Services, describing it as illegal.
The police had last week in Abuja arrested the president of the union, Alhaj Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, for allegedly importing thugs and armed men into the Federal Capital Territory.
The union’s National Secretariat was equally sealed off by security police to forestall a breakdown of law and order. They were barred from using the Secretariat for the election.
The union members on Wednesday, converged in Lafia, Nasarawa State, to conduct the election in a bid to keep it behind the glare of the security agencies but security agencies disrupted the proceedings and everybody including the leaders of the union, took to their heels to avoid being nabbed.
A faction of the union had secured a court order which directed the union to maintain the status quo ante bellum until the applications were heard and determined.
The leaders of the union in Southwest had been protesting against the second-term bid of the incumbent president, Alhaji Baruwa, hence a series of court charges pressed to determine his eligibility to stand for election.
