The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed a stakeholders meeting convened by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) as illegal and being organised “by some drama boys and attention seeking personalities in the NLC.”
Noting that the meeting, being summoned “by some desperate characters in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,” is unauthorized and not supported by any law, the LP, in a statement by Obiora Ifoh, its National Publicity Secretary, insisted that the outcome of the meeting will, therefore, be a nullity.
The LP said it had come to its notice that the “illegal stakeholders meeting,” scheduled to hold today, Monday in Abuja, to which some Nigerians had been invited, intends to appoint a caretaker committee for the Labour Party.
Urging all its “genuine members” to disregard and shun the meeting, the LP wondered why the NLC, which had yet to react to, or protest the Federal Government’s increase of “electricity tariff to about 300 per cent….is quick to convene an unlawful meeting of disgruntled members who are not even party members.”
Stressing that the “NLC does not have any proprietary right over the Labour Party and therefore cannot continue to lay claim to its ownership,” the LP called on the law enforcement agencies to abort the meeting, which they said, could “likely degenerate to public nuisance.”
