LP leadership tussle: NLC has failed to learn from history — LP NWC

By Grace Olatundun

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party (LP) has stated that the Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has failed to learn from history in its ongoing battle to take over the leadership of the party.

Referencing a court judgement between the NLC and LP in 2015, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, said, “Where people refuse to learn from history, history will continue to repeat itself.”

“When the Nigeria Labour Congress in 2015 attempted to crookedly take over the leadership of the Labour Party and wrote INEC, INEC replied that they have no locus standi to interfere or change the leadership of the party.

“They have failed to learn from that trajectory and it is surprising that Joe Ajaero’s NLC is also taking the same line of action and trajectory and they are expecting a different result.

“A reasonable NLC would have been thinking of how to consolidate with the leadership of the Labour Party having made huge exploits and having achieved great results from the 2023 general election; rather, they have chosen a collision cause which will neither help them nor help Nigerians,” the statement read.

Recall that the NLC had called for a stakeholders meeting on Monday to determine the fate of Julius Abure, the embattled National Chairman of the LP.

The Julius Abure-led faction had dismissed the meeting describing its purported sack by the Political Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) as of no effect.