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.
Credit: Bassey Udo/Premium Times
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