There was anxiety yesterday in Oyo State as news broke that the state Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde (aka Fele) had died. It was learnt that the union’s National President, Alhaji Yasin, as well as other stakeholders announced the appointment of the Vice Chairman in Oyo State, Alhaji Abideen Olajide (aka Ejiogbe), as the Acting Chairman.
A source close to the late commercial drivers’ chairman confirmed his death to The Nation yesterday. Oyerinde was said to have had serious issues with his health, making him pay frequent visits to the hospital in the last one year. The late NURTW chairman was born on October 1, 1960 and reportedly died at Zenith Kidney Hospital in Abuja, the nation’s capital, at 2 p.m yesterday.
Fele officially succeeded Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (aka Tokyo) in 2011 after years of violent supremacy battle between Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxilliary) and the late Alhaji Lateef (aka Eleweomo). The latter was killed in Ibadan in a political violence late 2010 at the height of the supremacy battle among the union’s leaders. Auxilliary is currently serving a jail term for criminal offenses.
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