The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has voided the return of the National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his National Working Committee at a national convention recently held in Nnewi, Anambra State.
In a communiqu issued at the end of the NLC Political Commission Stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, the Congress passed a vote of ‘no confidence’ on the purported convention and the leadership that emerged from it.
The communiqu, made available to newsmen in Abuja, was signed by the Chairman, NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku; former NLC President, Abdulwahed Omar; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Labour Party, S.O.Z. Ejiofor, among others.
According to the communiqu, the NLC approved the constitution of a Transition Committee under the leadership of the NLC Political Commission, to manage the affairs of the Party in the interim.
The stakeholders resolved that the transition committee should conduct the affairs of the party pending the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive national convention.
They also noted that, “Once constituted, the transition committee should fully take over the secretariats of the party all over Nigeria.
They held that the Transition Committee should, within three months of its constitution, ensure the conduct of an inclusive national convention of the Party.
They added that the process should start from ward congresses to local government congresses to state congresses, culminating in an all-inclusive and expansive national convention in Abuja.
The stakeholders further said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and all the relevant security organisations in Nigeria were notified of the new developments in the Party.
They agreed that INEC and others should be officially notified immediately to recognise the Transition Committee as the interim leadership of the Labour Party, and reiterated that the LP is a Party for all Nigerians regardless of ethnic, religious, regional, social, and economic orientation or status.
