The Labour Party (LP) Directorate on Mobilization and Integration has asserted that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Transition Committee (NTC) has become a destructive agent seemingly working for the government.
News360 Info reports that the Directorate made this known while reacting to a statement purportedly released by the NLC NTC describing Julius Abure as the former National Chairman of the Labour Party.
The statement further directed party stakeholders to boycott the planned Congress organised by LP in Anambra, Imo, Delta and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
However, the LP Directorate, in a statement on Monday by its Director General, Marcel Ngogbehei, maintained that Abure remains the authentic National Chairman of the LP, confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the party’s highest decision-making organ.
Ngogbehei described the purported statement by the NTC as childish, malicious and misleading, noting that the NLC does not have the authority to set up any transition committee for any party in the country.
He urged the LP stakeholders not to be distracted by the ill attitude of the NTC and to ensure that they fully attend the upcoming party congresses as announced by the Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC).
Ngogbehei also accused the NLC NTC of working with the government to demarket, weaken and prevent opposition parties like the Labour Party from holding the government accountable.
The LP Directorate added that NTC should engage the government to protect the interest of Nigerian workers and citizens rather than meddling in political affairs.
The statement read, “NTC has become a destructive agent seemingly working for the government to eliminate any perceived opposition structures in the country; the citizens are groaning under government policies that has left the Nigerian Workers more poorer; rather than the current NLC to learn from the Oshiomole years of courageous leadership and engage the Government to protect the interests of Nigerian workers and the citizens at large, they are busy meddling into political party affairs, attempting to demarket the only true opposition party in the country.”
