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The Nigeria Labour Congress leadership has promised to keep going till they remove Julius Abure from the position of national chairman of the Labour Party.
NLC spokesman Benson Upah affirmed that the union would never grant legitimacy or acknowledgement to Abure's leadership, even after a "illegal" national convention that put Abure back in office.
"Our stance on this issue is clear and has not changed," he declared. We still don't know much about Abure. It has nothing to do with removal. He does not, as far as we are aware, exist,” Upah said in a Punch Interview.
The development is coming at a time when a group of retired workers under the aegis of Lagos Assembly of Labour Veterans and Trade Unionists also called for the resignation of the embattled national chairman of the party and the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, over their contentious leadership struggle.
The former Anambra governor had expressed his frustrations at an X (formerly Twitter) Space session organised by Parallel Facts last Saturday night.
While explaining his absence at the national convention that got Julius Abure re-elected as the party’s national chairman, Obi told his audience that he didn’t attend the event because the party’s leadership failed to heed his appeal for wider consultation with relevant stakeholders before the exercise.
But Upah said the issue of whether Obi should stay or leave the party should not be debated, saying the former governor was free to determine his destiny.
