The Labor Occasion on Wednesday condemned the invasion of its social gathering secretariat by the management of the Nigeria Labor Congress, led by Joe Ajaero.
The Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the Labor Occasion, Abayomi Arabambi, known as for the arrest of Ajaero for “treason” for allegedly planning a political rebel in opposition to the Federal Authorities by way of conduct prone to trigger a breach of the peace, along with his attraction to college students, market girls and leaders, thugs and different miscreants to invade the 36-state department of the Labor Occasion places of work as it might result in breakdown of legislation and order.
The NLC had on Tuesday directed its members to mobilize staff and lay siege to LP secretariats throughout the nation to protest the social gathering's nationwide conference scheduled for March 27.
The round, collectively signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the NLC Political Committee, Titus Amba and Chris Uyot respectively, additionally demanded the speedy resignation or dismissal of the Nationwide Chairman of the Labor Occasion, Julius Abure, over the alleged “monetary villainy and contempt of the union president, Joe Ajaero.”
Dozens of protesting NLC members had been anticipated to crowd the LP nationwide headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday, singing solidarity songs and calling for the pinnacle of the social gathering management.
Nevertheless, safety officers posted within the space to keep up order prevented them from accessing the social gathering secretariat.
However at a press convention on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the LP Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Arabambi, known as for Ajaero's arrest.
He mentioned the decision for pickets and the following invasion and destruction of the Labor Occasion's nationwide workplace by the NLC was unlawful, archaic and inconsistent with trendy democracy.
He mentioned: “We are actually totally ready to shed our blood in protection of our social gathering management as any unconventional or unlawful means to hijack our social gathering management, in opposition to the rule of legislation, might be met with power and this isn’t a risk.
“We are going to defend our social gathering management from being taken over by the NLC political terrorists; we’re able to expel the miscreants of the NLC from the nationwide social gathering secretariat as nobody has the monopoly on violence.
“For anybody illegally posing as chairman, secretary or the rest, we urge all staff wherever within the nation to arrest them and convey them to us.
“Joe Ajaero has a penchant for civil disobedience and usurping the rights and privileges of different residents over himself as a result of when a case is pending earlier than a court docket of legislation, and on this case earlier than the Supreme Court docket, all events should preserve the established order as determined. by the Court docket of Enchantment.
“Our perception is that if there are scores to be settled, the NLC ought to have gone to court docket and allowed due course of to take its course, as a substitute of forcing political events to do their bidding as in the event that they had been coping with the company physique .
“NLC is a motion that should stay apolitical by any requirements. There are one million and one points affecting Nigerian staff right now on which the NLC has failed miserably.
“The NLC management as now we have right now is a failure that put an elephant on its head and scratched the grounds for rats.”
