This is indeed a very sad thing to happen in Nigeria. The apex labour body in the country now factionalised.

Where are we going to with this? It used to be political parties and now the NLC? Why is NLC's former president, Abdulwaheed Umar, leaving behind a divided house for Nigerian workers?
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Despite assurances by the newly
elected President of the Nigeria Labour
Congress, Ayuba Wabba, that his
leadership was making moves to bring
all aggrieved factions back to the fold,
a parallel executive emerged on
Thursday in Lagos.

The new executive, which effectively
splits the Congress into two factions,
has the main contender in last
Saturday’s rescheduled national
elections in Abuja, Joe Ajaero, as
President.

The emergence of Mr. Ajaero, the
General Secretary of the National
Union of Electricity Employees,
NUEE, has confirmed the threat by
members of 23 aggrieved affiliate
unions of the Congress to form a
parallel executive this week.

Mr. Wabba controls 18 out of the 43
affiliate unions. Two unions have
remained neutral as yet.
The threat by Mr. Ajaero’s faction
followed allegations that the electoral
process that led to the emergence of
Mr. Wabba as successor to the former
NLC President, Wahab Omar, was
flawed by irregularities.

The election in Lagos saw all the
participants returned unopposed, two
Deputy Presidents – the National
President of the Nigeria Union of
Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers,
Igwe Achese, and General Secretary of
the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring
Workers of Nigeria, Issa Aremu.

Also returned as Vice-Presidents were Kasumu Kadiri
of the Steel and Engineering Workers Union of
Nigeria; Kelly Ogbaloi of the National Union of Shop
and Distributive Employees, and Yashi Yahaya of the
National Union of Civil Service Secretariat and
Stenographic.

The main National Executive Council of the
Congress in a statement on Thursday by the General
Secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson, said at the end of its
National Administrative Council meeting in Abuja
that a reconciliation committee was set up to woo
aggrieved members, who lost during the Delegates
Conference back to the fold.

The Congress had warned affiliated unions invited to
the “special Conference” to ignore such invitation.
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NLC has never been the same since Oshemole sold the struggle for credible 2003 general elections. It is so saddening that the same Oshemole supervised the emergence of the outgoing President Omar Abdulwaheed. Today Oshemole is in APC preaching 'change'. Omar has connived with Kriston Lallly to dupe Nigerian workers through a fraudulent mass housing scheme. NLC is swimming in corruption.