The management disaster rocking the Labor Occasion took on one other dimension on Saturday after the opposition Nationwide Working Committee accused the Nationwide President of the Nigerian Labor Congress, Joe Ajaero, of desperately attempting to switch its Nationwide Chairman, Julius Abure .
The allegation was in response to an open letter written on Friday by the political wing of the NLC, the Nigeria Labor Congress Political Fee.
The letter collectively signed by the chairman and secretary of the committee, Titus Amba and Chris Uyot, accused Abure and the NWC of proposing a “secret” nationwide conference in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on 27 March, the place Abure can be re-elected as chairman of the committee. to proceed to guide the Labor Occasion as 'sole director'.
Whereas stating that the round was handed with out the enter of stakeholders, particularly the NLC, the letter additionally alleged that Abure had tried to unilaterally prolong his tenure by two years in April 2023 however this was stopped on the insistence of the the occasion's presidential candidate. Peter Obi, who insisted that the suitable factor be executed.
The political wing of the NLC described the deliberate conference as unlawful and known as for the instant resignation of Abure as occasion chairman and the institution of an interim transition committee to arrange a respectable and complete nationwide conference for the occasion.
However LP management kicked again the directive which they claimed was orchestrated by Ajaero over his alleged ambition to grow to be the occasion's subsequent nationwide chairman.
Reacting to a press release titled “Resign as NLC President to Contest LP Presidency, Labor Occasion Advises Joe Ajero,” LP Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, mentioned the management of the occasion won’t order hiring union members who don't carry playing cards. members of their occasion.
Ifoh additionally acknowledged that the mentioned nationwide conference scheduled to be held in Umuahia on March 27 will go forward as scheduled.
He mentioned: “The eye of the management of the Labor Occasion has been drawn to a press launch entitled 'A setback in political mischief, mismanagement and malfeasance gone too far', written by the NLC Political Committee as agent of the Nigeria Labor Congress. The NLC letter didn’t come as a shock or shock to us. It was anticipated for a very long time as a result of we knew the NLC was going to get into this misadventure.
“Nigerians will recall that in 2014, NLC engaged in a struggle of blackmail and attrition in opposition to the Labor Occasion and its management. Solely not too long ago, because of the civil and diplomatic method adopted by Julius Abure when he assumed management, he managed to get the then Chairman of the NLC, Ayuba Waba, and the then Chairman of the Commerce Union Congress, Olaleye Quadri, to return to an settlement . ceasefire wherein the NLC, TUC and the Labor Occasion agreed to work collectively in concord.
“Sadly, the villainy of the present President of the NLC, Joe Ajero, has undone the successes already achieved. It needs to be famous that the NLC and its political committee have grow to be a bundle of contradictions and paradoxes. The Nigeria Labor Congress has written a number of letters to the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee and to the occasion on the necessity to maintain a nationwide conference.”
Talking additional, the LP spokesperson acknowledged that the occasion management lastly succumbed to the agitation for the nationwide conference, which was totally supported by Article 14:4b of the occasion structure.
Ifoh added that if the NLC president and his loyalists will not be glad with the supply, Ajaero needs to be suggested to vacate his place and formally be part of the race to wrest energy from Abure.
He, nonetheless, urged the union members to think about becoming a member of the occasion on the ward degree as actual politics begins from the underside up.
“At this level, the occasion management want to ask the NLC: what precisely do they need? If Joe Ajero is within the management of the occasion, he’s subsequently suggested to resign as President of the NLC and be part of the battle for the nationwide chairmanship of the occasion scheduled for the conference on March 27, 2024.
“We now have beforehand suggested the NLC that occasion politics is performed on the district degree and never on the nationwide degree. If NLC is all in favour of taking cost of the occasion, it should have interaction in mass mobilization of its members to hitch the occasion on the grassroots. It can shock Nigerians to know that members and officers of the NLC will not be even members of the Labor Occasion. Throughout the nation, NLC members help the APC or the PDP.
“We should notice that extreme interference by the Nigeria Labor Congress within the affairs of the occasion has grow to be worrisome and it’s vital to emphasise right here the excellence that the Labor Occasion has a lifetime of its personal distinct from that of the Nigeria Labor Congress. We might subsequently prefer to advise the NLC and its committee that it ought to focus solely on its authorized tasks of defending staff and staff' rights.
“In conclusion, we notice that the Labor Occasion will proceed with our occasion manifestos and our conference might be held. We now have consulted with our stakeholders and the consultations are ongoing and we are going to proceed consultations till March 27 when the brand new management of the occasion will emerge,” he acknowledged.
