Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday warned members of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) against violence in a bid to choose a new chairman for the union.

The governor gave the warning when he addressed about 100 leaders of the union, led by the acting Chairman, Alhaji Abideen Olajide, at the executive chamber of his office in Ibadan, on why they must adhere to the union’s constitution and obey the rule of law.

The union chairman in the state, Taofeek Oyerinde, who doubled as South West chairman of NURTW, died on Tuesday at the Zenith Medical Kidney Hospital in Abuja, and was buried in his house in Ibadan on Wednesday.

Ajimobi, who made reference to the thuggery and brigandage that characterised the state before he became governor in 2011, appealed to the NURTW members not to disrupt the peace and tranquillity in the state since his assumption of power. He added that the late Oyerinde played a pivotal role in the maintenance and sustenance of peace and security in the state.

•Excerpted from a Daily Sun report