By ANAYO OKOLI

UMUAHIA—Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has waded into the crisis rocking the state chapter of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, with a promise to resolve it and correct any anomaly in the running of the union.

On account of the governor’s intervention, the union directed its striking members to resume work.

Meanwhile, the national leadership of the union had written to Abia State Head of Service, Mr. Godson Adiele, on the crisis in the state council of the union and urged him not to deal with another state leadership other than the Mr. Uchenna Obigwe-led executive committee.

The union is accusing the head of service of supporting the parallel leadership, headed by Uche Ezekiel, said to be caretaker committee, which the national leadership had disowned.

The union is alleging that the head of service encouraged the said Ezekiel’s caretaker committee to collect “in excess of N30 million of union fund without accounting to the Trustees of the union.”

In the letter to the head of service, dated January 19, and signed by Marcus Omokhuale, the union’s Secretary-General, the union said: “A group of renegades masquerading as a purported caretaker committee, led by one Mr. Uche Ezekiel, is unknown to the union.

“It would interest you to know that the said Uche Ezekiel has been expelled from the union after due process by the National Executive Council of the union held on April 3, 2014.

“He is, therefore, no longer a member of the union and the issue of holding of any position in the union, therefore, becomes an aberration.”