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The Labour Party (LP) has denounced the Nigeria Labour Congress Political Commission (NLC-PC) for accusing the Julius Abure leadership of the party of working to advance the interests of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, made the party’s position public in Abuja on Friday.
Ifoh said, “Recently, after the landmark court judgment affirming the leadership of Barrister Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party, some persons, including a former nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, and the acting chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, have tried to push the narrative that the Labour Party, under the leadership of Barrister Julius Abure, is working for the APC, and that is why the LP has been winning all its court cases.”
The LP Spokesperson described such narratives as misleading, mischievous, and a calculated attempt to continue to distract, derail, and also give the party leadership a bad name in order to hang it.
Ifoh said, “I must state clearly that the LP has been and is still critical of APC more than NLC. We put it on records that the NLC, in all its ramifications, has failed the Nigerian workers.
“Today, Nigerian workers are oppressed, the economy is not working, there are unfair practices against workers, and nobody speaks for the oppressed workers in Nigeria, except the current leadership of the party.
“If there is any leadership of the party from inception that has been very critical of the government, it is the Abure leadership of Labour Party.
“For the first time, the leadership of the party under Barrister Julius Abure has been able to record unprecedented achievements.
“Today, we can boast that the Labour Party won a majority of votes in the 2023 presidential election and produced a governor, 8 senators, 35 House of Representatives members, and several other members of the House of Assembly across the country.
“From the 2023 general election till now, Labour Party has been a very vibrant and strong opposition party to this present government.
