Assembly of Trade Unionists and Labour Veterans in Lagos State yesterday demanded immediate resignations of the National president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, as well as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Barr Julius Abure over what they described as “an endless tussle for the control of the party.”
The veteran labour leaders and trade unionists specifically accused Ajaero and Abure of deliberately abandoning the constitutional responsibilities in their respective offices to pursue personal aggrandizement rather than the collective welfare of Nigerian workers, as glaringly indicated in the “unfolding crisis” rocking the apex leadership structure of the Labour Party.
The Labour leaders during a press conference in Lagos disclosed that its call for Ajaero’s resignation was based on his failure to “rise up to the challenges demanded by his office” despite what it described as “overwhelming cases of financial recklessness” brought forward by the treasurer of the Labour Party against the party’s National Chairman, Abure.
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The Assembly’s Spokesman and former NLC’s National Vice President, Comrade Isah Tijjani also accused the duo of focusing their full attention on petty rifts, and avenues which he said the federal, states and Local Governments leveraged to “optimally exploit” Nigerian workers through the introduction of unpalatable economic measures that would keep them and their families in a permanent state of abominable penury.
Flanked by other veterans, Tijjani, a former NUPENG’s National Dept. President said his Assembly was grossly discomforted by the situation, stressing that such amounted to a “callous and complete abandonment” of the constitutional duties and core responsibilities duly bestowed upon the leaders.
According to him, “the abysmal failure of the leaders of the Labour unions and the Labour Party to provide credible challenges to these anti-people policies are indeed sufficient basis for Nigerian workers to demand their resignation, without any further delay”.
