The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), during a meeting held on Monday, nullified the national convention that reinstated Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) along with his National Working Committee (NWC).
To address the resulting leadership vacuum, the stakeholders decided to establish a transition committee.
The committee will oversee the party’s affairs until new officers are elected within the next three months.
Notable figures present at the gathering included Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku, representing the Chairman of the NLC Political Commission; Abdulwahed Omar, former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress; and Sylvester Ejiofor, Chairman of the LP Board of Trustees.
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Others attendees were Dr Moses Paul, Coordinator of the Obidient Movement; Chief Yohana Margif, LP Plateau Governorship Candidate; Dr Kingsley Okundaye, Coordinator of the Labour Party Patriotic Members Congress; Jonathan Asake, Kaduna LP Governorship Candidate; and Ihekwoaba Paul, representative of Persons with Disability in the Labour Party.
The resolution passed by the unionists also stressed the necessity of conducting a forensic audit of the LP.
The audit aligns with the demand made by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Allegations of corruption, forgery, and fraud against the party’s leadership prompted the call for scrutiny.
The details of the decisions were documented in a communique released after the NLC stakeholders’ meeting.
The communique partly read:
“Owing to the current vacuum in the leadership of the Labour Party, the NLC Political Commission consequent on its status in the Constitution of the Labour Party as a registered trustee of the Labour Party, a status that was further buttressed by a Federal High Court consent judgment delivered on March 20, 2018 by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, moved for an immediate constitution of a transition committee with a mandate to set up structures at national, state, local government and ward level for the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive national convention of the Labour Party.
“The stakeholders meeting passed a vote of no-confidence on the purported Labour Party national convention held in Nnewi, Anambra State and regards as inconsequential the leadership that claims to have emerged from the illegal Nnewi Convention.
“INEC and all relevant security organisations are hereby notified and should be officially written immediately to recognise the transition committee as the interim leadership of LP pending the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive national convention
“The committee once constituted should fully take over the secretariats of the Labour Party all over Nigeria and shall immediately set up an assets recovery process of all the properties of the Labour Party.
“The committee shall also ensure that all the cases of fraud, impersonation and forgery of government documents pending against a few discredited former officers of the Labour Party are forensically audited and culprits are diligently prosecuted as demanded by leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi. It is unfortunate that the actions of these few dishonourable characters have splashed mud on the white satin of Labour Party.
“Pursuant to the foregoing, the committee shall within three months of its constitution ensure the conduct of an inclusive national convention of the party starting from ward congresses to local government congresses to state congresses culminating in an all-inclusive and expansive national convention in Abuja.
“Finally, we reiterate that the Labour Party is a Party for all Nigerians regardless of ethnic, religious, regional, social and economic orientation or status.”
