NLC to FG: It’s Sin to Destabilise Workers’ Party; You Are the Problem, LP Fires Back

Chuks Okocha and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has alleged that agencies of the federal government were involved in the destabilisation of the Labour Party, describing it a sin to do such to. the workers’ party.

But the Labour Party faction led by Julius Abure, hasblamed the crisis befalling the party on the NLC led by Comrade Joe Ajero in cohoots with Nenadi Usman and others, instead of pointing fingers at the federal government.

The allegation by the Labour Movement came just as the leadership of the Board of Trustees of the Labour Party convened a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) to plan way forward and set in motion processes for the conduct of congresses nationwide.

Speaking at the opening of the meeting held at Top Rank Hotel in Abuja, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said federal government has been afraid of Labour Party right from the onset due to its link with the workers.

“All agencies of government are involved in this destabilisation plot. So, it’s better we understand it clearly and tell them that they should remove their hands in the disorganisation of the workers. It is a sin to destabilise the workers party,”  he said.

Ajaero explained that the government was afraid of the name Labour Party from onset and would not have registered it but for the wisdom applied by Labour Party that the promoters of the party who first named it party for Social Democracy before changing it to Labour Party after registration.

“All over the world, the labour Party is organised and ran by the trade unions. Over 57 countries of the world have functional Labour Party. Why would Nigeria’s case be different and why would government put eyes in Labour Party in Nigeria,” he said.

But the Abure faction of the Labour Party, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour party, Obiora Ifoh, said, ‘’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 has 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 everyday, constituting nuisance, all in 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.”