Working on the directives from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and with guidance from the registrar of trade unions, another general council was held in Kampala on Monday January 9 to handle the leadership matters internally.
According to Stephen Mugole, the acting chairman-general, the embattled Owere was among those invited to attend the council much as he was a no-show.
However, Owere through his lawyers Okua and associates instead wrote to Tom Amiti the deputy secretary general of the new leadership insisting that he remains the substantive leader and warns them against any activities he says are illegal.
Last year in November, the general council of NOTU after being controversially voted into power, overwhelmingly voted to remove the Chairman-General Usher Wilson Owere in a no-confidence motion.
Owere was accused of inefficiency, dictatorship, sabotage and mismanaging the workers' federation. They replaced him with Bubuulo West Member of Parliament Stephen Mugole but Owere insisted the process of voting him out was illegal.
Three days later, Court dismissed an application in which embattled NOTU chairman-general Usher Wilson Owere was seeking to block his ouster.
The application had been fixed for hearing before the deputy registrar of the High Court Civil Division. But the applicants, Notu and Mr Owere, together with the respondent Notu secretary general Christopher Peter Werikhe did not show up in court.