Focus on your core mandate of promoting workers welfare, LP tells NLC

By Perpetua Onuegbu

Abuja, Oct. 18, 2024 (NAN) The Labour Party has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to focus on it’s primary mandate of promoting workers welfare and stop accusing it of working for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Obiora Ifoh , National Publicity Secretary, LP made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

According to Ifoh the party has to the accusations that the party was working for the ruling party..

“We put it on records that the NLC in all its ramifications has failed the Nigerian workers.

There are unfair practices against workers, and nobody speaks for the oppressed workers in Nigeria, except the current leadership of the party..

“If there is any leadership of the party from inception that has been very critical of the government, it is the Abure leadership of Labour Party.

“The leadership of the party under Barrister Julius Abure has been able record unprecedented achievements. Today, we can boast that the Labour Party won majority of votes in the 2023 presidential election.

“Produced a Governor, 8 Senators, 35 House of Representatives members and several other members of the House of Assembly across the country.

“From the 2023 general election till now, Labour Party has been a very vibrant and strong opposition party to this present day.

“For any person to say that that leadership is working for APC led government, it can only be mischief carried too far and a calculated attempt to distract the leadership of the party,” Ifoh said.

The national publicity secretary said NLC without any justifiable reason had been fighting the party and had been demarketing the party at will.

Ifoh said the NLC even went as far as masterminding a parallel group and leadership by setting up a transition committee.

“We want to advice the NLC that it is time it focused on its primary duty. Recently, the Registrar of the Trade Unions made it very clear that the Nigeria Labour Congress has no business in the affairs of the Labour Party.

“The recent court judgements have also stated very clearly the position of law in a matter such as the limits of a Labour group in the ownership and administration of a political party in Nigeria.

“So we advice the NLC to stop ridiculing itself, stop being a meddlesome interloper and concentrate on its primary role as stated by the laws of the land.

” We urge them to allow the Labour Party to continue making progress toward providing an alternative platform for which we hope to pull Nigeria out from the present predicament.”

Ifoh also called on Kenneth Okonkwo, a former nollywood actor to desist from disparaging the party and concentrate on his acting career.

“However, it is sufficient for us to put it on record that the Labour Party is not working for APC and that the Labour Party is autonomous.

” It is therefore important to reemphasize that the Abure leadership is working for members of the party who elected them in office.

“We therefore want to call on our teeming members to disregard what the NLC, Kenneth Okonkwo and all our adversaries are saying,”” Ifoh said.(NAN)