Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, the chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Management, has spoken out in defense of Alhaji Najeem Yasin, the former national president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), over his endorsement of APC flagbearer Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Alhaji Yasin, the National Deputy President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), recently announced the campaign platform YASIN for Tinubu/Shettima Presidency in Kwara State and urged locals to support them both strongly in the upcoming election.
He said: “They are the best candidates, given what they have achieved as former governors of their respective states.”
Akinsanya, however, described Yasin’s action as a step in the right direction.
According to Akinsanya, Yasin’s being a visionary leader was only exercising his fundamental human rights.
He said: “It is those who don’t know the personality of Alhaji Yasin and his achievements as NURTW President that will abuse him. This is the man that took NURTW to an international level by joining the international transport union. He also became a board member of the International Transport Association in London by a dint of hard work and uprightness. During his tenure as NURTW President, he ensured peaceful co-existence among all union chapters, especially in some southwest where there were crises. He introduced several reforms that made NURTW a respected union. He is an advocate of peaceful co-existence and progressive unionism.”
