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Amidst tight security, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday, stormed the national secretariat of the Labour Party at Utako in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja to show solidarity with the embattled national chairman, Mr Julius Abure.
The LP has been enmeshed in a leadership crisis for about two weeks now following the FCT High Court interim injunction restraining the party’s chairman from parading himself as the national chairman.
Arising from the FCT court order, the party’s national vice chairman (South), Lamido Bashir Apapa assumed the position of the chairman on acting capacity.
Addressing workers at the party office, the NLC’ president, Comrade Joe Ajaero said the labour movement will resist any plot to derail Labour Party, especially now that it is enjoying wide acceptance by Nigerians.
He said under no circumstances will the labour movement allows anyone to derail the party they worked hard to recover from impostors.
The visibly angry NLC President said, “Today, we say enough is enough. Never again will any human being enter here under any guise, under any order. Even if we lose our leadership, we have to meet as trustees of this party to decide the next line of action.
“For anybody to illegally declare himself either as chairman, secretary or anything, we urge all workers anywhere in the country, where you see such people, arrest them them and bring them to us.
“The hour has come. The Bible says, “from the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of God sufferreth violence. And violence taketh by force. Now we have come to take our party, we have come to establish our party. As the fastest growing party, you can see that envy and jealousy is crippling in. The people that are pioneering this to sabotage us let’s announce here that we know your fathers.
“If you continue this way, we will go after your fathers. We leave it here until we finish our private discussion. Let it be known to the whole world that the NLC fathered LP and we will not abandon our child,” he said.
Ajaero said that NLC’ decided to visit the party headquarters to fish out intruders that want to usurp the leadership of Labour Party.
“For some time now, we have not been visiting our house we decided to visit our house this afternoon after getting some information that there are some rodents trying to move into our house and we have come with some insecticide to fumigate the house from any rodents that are illegally trying to enter our property.
