The leadership of the Labour Party (LP) on Tuesday, said the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lacked the power to sack the Julius Abure-National Working Committee as recently declared.
The LP was reacting to the resolution taken by the NLC Political Commission at a stakeholders meeting in Abuja on Monday, which voided the national convention that returned Abure and his NWC members to office
But the Labour Party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said the NLC lacked such power to sack legitimate leadership of Labour Party.’
Ifoh described the stakeholders’ meeting as an illegal assembly of a handful of aggrieved former members of the party and some ‘social media tigers’ who are not card-carrying members of LP.
He said, “The Political Commission of the NLC is a front for Comrade Joe Ajaero, which he has empowered for the purpose of his political ambition come 2027.
“The group is unknown to the Labour Party and as such lacks powers to convene a meeting of ‘stakeholders’ to deliberate, let alone take any decision which will have a binding effect on a legally constituted party leadership.
“The group has been mandated by Ajaero to ensure that crisis in Labour Party festers ahead of the 2027 by presenting itself as a rallying ground for dissident former members of our party, who recently lost the leadership battle in the courts.
“We are also not unmindful of the political pact the leadership of the NLC has gone into with the current All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to destabilize the opposition.
“This explains why in quick succession all their plots to hijack the party leadership failed. First, it was by illegal picketing of the party when that failed, it attempted to introduce and inaugurate a non existing Board of Trustees that also failed.
“Again, the attempted plot to take over the party using stakeholders meeting comprising former members, social media tigers and non-members will again fall like a pack of cards.
“It is pertinent to add that Nigerians are suffering under the harsh economic conditions of the current government. Workers and the downtrodden are at the receiving end.
“As we speak, there are unfair workers’ practices perpetuated by employers but the Nigerian Labour Congress has failed to take proactive roles in order to fight for the rights of workers.
“We want to remind Comrade Joe Ajaero that he has a lot of work to do for the Nigerian workers which he is abdicating to face politics. This is why we previously advised that he should first resign as NLC President if he wants to join politics.”
