Labour Party: NLC Urged To Follow Apapa Example, Reunite With Abure

The decision of the  Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party, LP to back Mr Julius Abure as the National Chairman is a commendable step, the National Deputy Chairman of LP, Dr Ayo Olorunfemi has said.

He spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.

He said the faction had taken  the path of wisdom by recognising Abure.

According to him, LP is waiting for the party’s parent body, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to resolve its differences with stakeholders in the party, particularly the chairman.

“Now ,Nigerians can now understand that all the allegations levied against our National Chairman are politically motivated.

“I must tell you that some of the elements fighting him (Abure) from NLC are doing so on the strength of that same allegations.

“It is now over and the need for a united front is now,” Olorunfemi, the Ondo State LP governorship candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll, said.

On the transition committee set up by NLC, the LP chieftain described it as an exercise in futility.

Olorunfemi, a former labour union leader, said ,”The union is guided by its constitution and there  is no provision in the LP constitution that grants NLC any power to do what it is doing.”

“Concerning the national convention, NLC, just like TUC, has only 3 delegates out of over 200.

“Everything before and during the convention were done in line with the party ‘sconstitution and the Electoral Act.

“It will be good for NLC too to follow the path of honour and nominate its statutory representative  to join the NWC.”he said.

NAN recalls that the LP was engulfed in leadership crisis shortly after the 2023 general elections,leading to the factionalisation of the party along  the Apapa-led National Working Committee (NWC) and the incumbent Abure-led NWC.

A court later  restrained  Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

Abure ,supported by the NLC ,fought fiercely to reclaim his seat and was later affirmed as the party Chairman .

However, Abure later fell out of favour with the NLC, following a contentious national convention held in Anambra, that returned him and all loyal members of his faction to office  on March 27. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)

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