The leadership of the NLC Political Commission and other concerned Labour Party stakeholders will issue necessary directives to this effect.
Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, sent a letter on Tuesday to union leaders asking them to start organizing their members in preparation for an invasion and takeover of the 36 Labour Party offices and national secretariat in Abuja.
The order was issued by Ajaero in an internal memo. The Ajaero order follows the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday, which overturned a previous ruling by lower courts.
The action was reminiscent of the invasion that took place on March 21, 2024, in which disgruntled unions burst into the headquarters of the Labour Party as well as other offices.
The National Working Committee stated that this was a purposeful act with the intention of stealing documents and money.
But Ajaero emphasized that they could not fold their hands and watch Abure and his crew flout the Supreme Court’s judgment.
Ajaero said, “Just as we warned him about a year ago that Nigerian workers and genuine members of the Labour Party will always collect what belongs to them no matter how long a mischief lasts.
“By this communication, we urge every worker in Nigeria, all genuine members of the Labour Party and all lovers of democracy, to be on standby to once again peacefully repossess all offices of the Labour Party nationwide.
“The leadership of the NLC Political Commission and other concerned Labour Party stakeholders will issue necessary directives to this effect.
“We are also putting all the security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service, on notice that they have a constitutional duty to enable and enforce the judgement of the Supreme Court.
“We expect their cooperation as we pursue the rule of law. Any action to the contrary will present our dear country as a banana republic.
“Nigerian workers and people, especially genuine members of the Labour Party, will not sit back and watch unscrupulous elements desecrate Nigeria’s laws and the well-founded judgement of the Supreme Court.”
The idea that Abure and his accused accomplices could continue to pose as party national officers after the verdict shocked Ajaero.
The NLC president announced that the remaining institutional members of the LP National Executive Committee will select interim leaders to hold an inclusive National Convention in accordance with the LP Constitution and the consent judgment, in order to fill the leadership void in the party.
Despite this, he insisted that Abure and his supporters’ names be removed off the Independent National Electoral Commission’s portal.
“Finally, we call on the Independent National Electoral Commission which had always pleaded alignment with the pronouncement of the court of law in the leadership issues in the Labour Party to give full effect to the conclusive judgment of the Supreme Court by removing every insignia of Mr Julius Abure and his National Working Committee from its portals.”