The Labour Party’s (LP) Directorate on Mobilisation and Integration has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress’ (NLC) National Transition Committee (NTC) to stop demarketing the party and Peter Obi, its 2023 presidential candidate.
This was as the Directorate maintained that Julius 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.
The LP Directorate urged the NLC’s NTC to exercise sufficient responsibility and either honour Obi’s initiative for reconciliation or pursue legal action if necessary.
The Directorate was responding to a purportedly NLC NTC-released unsigned statement that claimed Abure was the former National Chairman of LP.
The statement also instructed party members to abstain from the Congress that LP was scheduled to host in Anambra, Imo, Delta, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
However, in a statement released on Monday by its Director General, Marcel Ngogbehei, the LP Directorate on Mobilisation and Integration characterised the NTC’s statement as naive, spiteful, and false, emphasising that the NLC lacks the jurisdiction to establish a transition committee for any political party in the nation.
According to Ngogbehei, if the action is legal alienation, they ought to challenge its constitutionality in court.
The Directorate went on to say that the NTC was well-known for causing division and urged Nigerians and Labour Party supporters to disregard their antics.
He also urged LP stakeholders to make sure they fully attend the next party congresses, which will be announced by the National Working Committee (NWC) led by Abure, and not let the negative attitude of the NTC divert them.
Furthermore, the party also blamed the NLC NTC of working with the government to demarket, weaken and prevent opposition parties like LP from holding the government accountable.
“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 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,” the statement read.
