Adams Oshiomhole, the senator from Edo North, has urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to put more effort into furthering workers’ rights than into partisan politics.
He maintained that there was no obvious worker-focused goal behind the current strike, but rather it appeared to be driven by political concerns.
Following a meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima, the senator made this declaration.
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Speaking to State House Correspondents, he stated that, given his experience as a worker and union leader, he would always support Labour; he demanded, however, that Labour refrain from engaging in partisan politics.
Oshiomhole said that he had no political affiliations while serving as president of the NLC and that he would not be a political score-keeper.
According to him, “Labour cannot be apolitical because politics is about the people. And I have argued when I was in NLC that nobody has a right to be partisan, much more than those who turn the will of our industrial progress.
“But in saying that, we must recognise that however how hard you try, when it comes to politics, people are going to have different reasons for supporting different candidates.
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“You have to be careful not to be seen to be doing the bidding of a particular candidate or a particular political party. As President of the NLC, I made no friend with any politicians in Edo State.
“So Ogbemudia once asked me, ‘we want to be able to say leave the matter to me he’s my boy, I will call him.’
“I am not anybody’s boy. I want to make my decisions. I take responsibility for those decisions. You can’t find me in the house of a politician jot because I hate them. Because they represent the value that I represent.
“I represent those guys who can only vote. Even though the law allowed them to be voted for, unfortunately, the system hardly throws them up.
“So I have to prioritise what is it that I’m ready to die for. And what is it that I’m ready to accommodate.”
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