The creation of the Labour Party from the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), according to Joe Ajaero, does not indicate that the party has any kind of formal authority over its members’ conduct.
The federal government and the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had reached agreements on Monday to postpone the scheduled strike for Wednesday.
Ajaero denied that the party sponsors the union but confirmed their membership with the NLC in an interview with Channels TV.
Although it is obvious to everyone in Nigeria that the Labour Party is owned by the NLC and that no NLC official can dispute that, he continued, “Well, I wouldn’t know whether these concerns are informed matters.
“But even when this issue of subsidy was analyzed by various presidential candidates, the NLC was clear and I could remember I stated that if the Labour Party candidate went into that, he would even have double punishments from the Labour Movement because that counters our demands that was given to him and the ideology for which the Labour Party was formed.
“The fact that we formed Labour Party does not mean that if it does anything wrong, and is an insult to say that Labour Party is now dictating for NLC that formed it? That is the worst insult anybody can say.
“If people are going into blackmail, it should not be such, we determine what happens in Labour Party to a large extent. Who is Labour Party and their candidate to tell NLC what to do? What we are doing now, has it not consistent with what we have been doing on fuel subsidy?”
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