LP crisis: NLC, Abure blame each other over internal crisis

LP crisis: NLC, Abure blame each other over internal crisis

 The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade
Joe Ajaero, and the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party, LP, have
traded blame over those responsible for the ongoing internal political
wrangling plaguing the party.

 

While Ajaero put the blame squarely on the ruling party and
the federal government, Abure insisted that it’s the likes of Ajaero, the NLC
and their support for the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee
that were to blame.

 

At a stakeholders’ meeting of the Usman-led LP-NCC on
Wednesday, Ajaero noted that, “It is the potential that we have that is
attracting all these attacks. All the agencies of government are involved in
the destabilisation plot.

 

“I call on the government to stop destabilising workers
party. All over the world, Labour Party is organised and run by trade unions.
Over 57 countries have functional Labour Parties; why will Nigeria be
different? The Labour Party is the only party a son of a poor man can become
somebody.

 

“In the next month we will finish with sensitisation. Those
who want to join Labour Party should come now, but he should be an
institutional person.”

 

According to him, the founders of the party owe it a duty to
put the party in order, saying they are not quarrelling with anybody.

 

“I sent a letter after the Supreme Court judgement that
every worker should be on standby. In the next few days there will be an action
to take what belongs to us,” he added.

 

Responding, the Abure-led faction, in a statement signed by
its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said the NLC and its president
should leave the federal government and its agencies out of the party’s
internal issues and look inwards.

 

He maintained that the attention of the leadership of the LP
under Abure’s leadership was drawn to “yet another illegal and purported
stakeholders meeting” held in Abuja by the Ajaero-led NLC in cohorts with the
Nenadi Usman-led group.

 

“We must state clearly and categorically that if there is
any person or organisation that has destabilised the Labour Party or who is
working to destabilise the party, it is no other person than Joe Ajero and the
NLC.

 

“We must also state here that after the general election in
2023, the party had no issues at all; we had no faction, and we had no major
disagreement in the party.

 

“It was Ajero who went ahead to illegally, unprofessionally
and unconstitutionally set up a so-called Transition Committee which went all
over the place making noise and debasing the image of the party.

 

“It was the same committee set up by Ajero that was going to
INEC every day, constituting a nuisance, all in an attempt to destabilise the
party, mobilising people, including old and retired men, including Abdulawaheed
Omar, Comrade Ejiofor, Lawson Osagie and Prof. Theophilus Ndubaku, men who
should be resting after many years of serving their fatherland, to go against
the interest of the party.

 

“Nigerians all over have asked Ajero to concentrate on his
primary assignment to fight for the welfare of workers.

 

“The regulatory body in charge of the Labour Union in the
Ministry of Labour has also publicly admonished Ajaero to excuse himself from
matters concerning politics and to face his legitimate assignment to defend
workers interests.

 

“If there is any group or persons who have worked against
the interest of the Labour Party, it is NLC and Joe Ajero. So he should not
shift the blame to any person; he should squarely take responsibility for
whatever is happening in the party today,” Ifoh said.

Source: LP crisis: NLC, Abure blame each other over internal crisis

 - NigerianEye

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