One of Lagos state’s most celebrated National
Union of Road Transport Workers executives, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known
as MC Oluomo, has been making the headlines lately. For several months running,
he has been in the middle of a power tussle going on between him and Alhaji
Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa over the office of the President of the union. At some
point, the picture everyone had was that MC Oluomo was done fighting for the
position and Baruwa was the recognised president. The impression was that MC
Oluomo had no intention to contest the position any longer, until, suddenly,
last week, news emerged that MC Oluomo had been installed president of the
NURTW..
The story came as a shock to everyone. Nobody saw
it coming. Immediately the news broke, the internet was flooded with
congratulatory messages from MC Oluomo’s friends, fans and well wishers,
congratulating him on his emergence as the new national President of the NURTW.
It was celebration galore amongst his close friends and family members. Even
one of his sons tweeted, in the euphoria of his father’s inauguration as
President, that “we are the owners of Nigeria.” But the celebration was however
short lived.
It turned out that Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle
Baruwa had gone to the Appeal Court to contest the judgement given by the
Industrial Court and the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has declared Baruwa
as the legally recognised President of the National Union of Road Transport
Workers (NURTW).
The Court also okayed the judgement of the
National Industrial Court delivered on March 11, 2024, in respect of Suit No.
NICN/ABJ/263/2023, which declared Baruwa as NURTW president.
At a press briefing on Friday, Nov. 15, Tajudeen
Baruwa, had kicked against the inauguration of Musiliu Akinsanya, better known
as MC Oluomo as the new President of the union.
Baruwa had said that MC Oluomo’s inauguration
was not only laughable, but also an affront on the judiciary as it violated the
March 11 and November 8 judgments of the National Industrial Court and Court of
Appeal, which restrained the Yasin-led faction from interfering in the
activities of the union and the day to day administration of Baruwa-led
National Executives of NURTW.
This unexpected turn of events has totally
embarrassed the man popularly called MC. There is deafening silence coming from
his camp right now. He has not officially said a word about the shocking
development which has left him and his cronies completely devastated and to say
the least, humiliated. After all, the impression everyone had was that he had
the backing of a lot of heavyweights in the presidency and could pull a lot of
strings to get things done his way. But that has not happened in this case. MC
Oluomo is on his own.
It is at this time that some close confidants of
his reminded him of sometime early this year when Primate Ayodele sent words to
him that he needed to see him and he declined to go see Primate Ayodele. And
what reasons did he give? He said Primate Ayodele is not a friend of the ruling
party, APC, which he belongs to and that if he goes to meet with Primate Ayodele,
leaders of the party will not be happy with him for fraternising with a man
that is considered an enemy of their party. And so, for that reason, he failed
to go and see Primate. And it must be said that, ever since that time when he
declined to meet with Primate Ayodele, he has been struggling to find his feet
in the scheme of things. Within the NURTW, he has been rendered irrelevant and
powerless. Within the corridors of power in Aso Rock, it has been difficult for
him to get the backing of the President like he used to. He was pushed out of
Lagos and ferried off to Abuja, yet, he has had no meaningful progress. And
then came this final straw that broke the camel’s back. It is a big humiliation
for MC who was right in the middle of a celebration when news broke that the
Appeal court had nullified his inauguration as President of the NURTW.
Friends and close allies of MC who were privy to
the situation back then when Primate Ayodele requested to see him and he turned
it down have urged him to go see the powerful man of God. They are not happy
with the turn of events in his life, more so when they realised that all the
Primate wanted to see him for was over a highly spiritual matter that revolved
around his personal life and had nothing to do with his political affiliations.
It is believed that, perhaps if he had seen Primate Ayodele when the man asked
him to come see him, the turbulence that have plagued his life in the past
months may not have happened. And from the look of things, there may still be
more turbulent days ahead of the hugely popular socialite. Perhaps there is no
better time for him than now to go and meet the respected leader and founder of
INRI Evangelical Spiritual church, he might just be able to tell him where his
travails are coming from and what he needs to do to triumph over them.
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