NLC Demands Arrest Of Their Leader Joe Ajaero
The Labour Party has demanded that the NLC President be arrested for invading the party secretariat.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, led by Joe Ajaero, invaded the Labour Party's secretariat, and the Labour Party has condemned this action.
Remember that the NLC gave its members orders on Tuesday, March 19, to organize workers and occupy Labour Party secretariats nationwide in protest of the party's national convention, which is scheduled for March 27.
On Wednesday, March 20, Abayomi Arabambi, the party's national publicity secretary, demanded that Ajaero be arrested for treason and for organizing a political uprising against the federal government by engaging in actions that could disturb the peace. He called on students, market women and leaders, thugs, and other miscreants to invade the Labour Party offices in 36 states.
Arabambi claims that this could result in a collapse of law and order.
The circular, co-signed by Titus Amba, the Chairman of the NLC Political Commission, and Chris Uyot, the Secretary, also called for Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, to resign immediately due to Ajaero's alleged financial misbehavior and contempt.
However, a large contingent of protesting NLC members made their way on Wednesday, March 20, through the doors of the Labour Party national offices in Abuja, where they chanted songs of unity and demanded the appointment of the party's leader.
Security personnel sent to the area to keep the peace kept them from entering the party secretariat.
Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on the same Wednesday, Arabambi, the LP's national publicity secretary, demanded that Ajaero be taken into custody.
He stated that the NLC's demand for picketing, together with the ensuing invasion and destruction of the Labour Party national office, was unlawful, out of step with modern democracy, and outdated.
He declared, “We shall defend our party leadership from being taken over by the NLC political terrorists; we are prepared to dislodge the NLC miscreants from the party national secretariat as nobody has the monopoly of violence.
“For anybody to illegally declare himself either as chairman, secretary or anything, we urge all workers anywhere in the country, to arrest them and bring them to us.
“Joe Ajaero has a penchant for civil disobedience, arrogation of rights and privileges of other citizens to himself because, when a matter is pending before a court, and in this case, the Supreme Court, all parties are to maintain the status quo as decided by the Court of Appeal.
“Our belief is that if there are any scores to settle, the NLC should have gone to court and allowed due process to take its course rather than coercing political parties to dance to their tunes as if they were dealing with the corporate organization.
“NLC is a movement which by every standard should remain apolitical. There are thousands and one issues that affect Nigerian workers today, which the NLC has failed woefully to fight for.
“The set of NLC leadership as we have today is a failure who put an elephant on the head and scratched for rats on the grounds.”
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