Kelvin Bowoto
The Labour Party‘s (LP) leadership crisis took a new turn yesterday when Labour veterans and trade unionists demanded that the party’s national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, and the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, step down.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, veteran labour leader Comrade Isah Tijjani, a former vice president of the NLC, decried the continued display of shame by Abure and Ajaero.
He claimed that instead of proudly honoring the party’s lofty goals, a handful of avaricious, power-hungry political fraudsters used many subterfuges to successfully transform the nation’s promising workers’ party into a massive political tragedy.
“The cumulative impact of this terrible trend is that the political prospects signaled by the introduction of this popular party into the struggle for power in our beloved country are rapidly fading into incomprehensible obscurity.
“This distasteful decadence engulfing the party is being given real expression by the irony of the corrupt party officials locking the party gate firmly against millions of workers eager to join the party.
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“Regrettably, as we speak, this pathetic situation continued unabated because the NLC, which is supposed to play its rightful role as the collective conscience of the party, woefully failed to rise to this enormous responsibility, which she treats with unforgivable levity and reckless abandon.”
The leader of a veteran union has decried the present Labour Union leadership’s sickening culture of selfishness and egocentricity.
He stated that this fact helps to explain why the NLC, led by comrade Joe Ajaero, has recently suffered significant losses in both the sphere of industrial relations and the campaign to rebuild and reposition the Labour Party.
The veterans also denounced claims of financial corruption inside the Labour Party under the leadership of national chairman Julius Abure. “In this regard, our esteemed members today emphatically repeat their fundamental demand: Abure Must Go.
“Hence, our members will not despair in pointing out the many failings of comrade Joe Ajaero, especially in the sphere of labour unionism, which clearly demonstrate that his well-known choleric temperament and overly undemocratic character have combined to make him totally unsuitable for labour leadership,” according to the statement.
Techrectory with Agency Report.
