The Labour Party informs NLC that you are unable to fire Abure

The Nigeria Labour Congress was forewarned on Tuesday by the Labour Party leadership not to attempt to seize control of the political platform, citing their inability to remove the Julius Abure-National Working Committee as recently announced.

The party’s answer was in response to the decision made on Monday during an Abuja stakeholders’ meeting by the NLC Political Commission.

The unionists nullified the national convention that reinstated Abure and his NWC members in the statement they issued following the event.

The stakeholders announced that the congress would form a transition committee to manage the party’s operations until new officers are chosen in three months, filling the void.

The NLC’s resolution also brought up the necessity of performing a forensic audit of the LP financial accounts, as demanded by Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, in response to charges of fraud, forgery, and corruption made against the party’s leadership.

On Tuesday, however, the party took aim, claiming that the NLC lacked the authority to fire its cabinet.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, made this announcement in a statement headed “NLC, cohorts lack powers to sack legitimate leadership of Labour Party.”

Ifoh characterized the stakeholders’ meeting as an unlawful gathering of a few disgruntled ex-party members and a few “social media tigers” who are not officially registered LP members.

He said, “The Political Commission of the NLC is a front for Comrade Joe Ajaero, which he has empowered for the purpose of his political ambition come 2027. The group is unknown to the Labour Party and as such lacks powers to convene a meeting of ‘stakeholders’ to deliberate, let alone take any decision which will have a binding effect on a legally constituted party leadership.

“The group has been mandated by Ajaero to ensure that crisis in Labour Party festers ahead of the 2027 by presenting itself as a rallying ground for dissident former members of our party, who recently lost the leadership battle in the courts. We are also not unmindful of the political pact the leadership of the NLC has gone into with the current All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to destabilize the opposition.

“This explains why in quick succession all their plots to hijack the party leadership failed. First, it was by illegal picketing of the party when that failed, it attempted to introduce and inaugurate a non existing Board of Trustees that also failed. Again, the attempted plot to take over the party using stakeholders meeting comprising former members, social media tigers and non-members will again fall like a pack of cards.

“It is pertinent to add that Nigerians are suffering under the harsh economic conditions of the current government. Workers and the downtrodden are at the receiving end. As we speak, there are unfair workers’ practices perpetuated by employers but the Nigerian Labour Congress has failed to take proactive roles in order to fight for the rights of workers. We want to remind Comrade Joe Ajaero that he has a lot of work to do for the Nigerian workers which he is abdicating to face politics. This is why we previously advised that he should first resign as NLC President if he wants to join politics.”