Ahead of the next year’s general elections, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba has assured the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi of the support of the Nigeria workers across 774 local governments in the country.
NLC President stated this on Monday at the National Retreat of the party in Abuja. He vowed to mobilize workers to achieve victory for the party presidential candidate, Peter Obi
According to him, “one issue that we must take very serious is actually conscientising our members and also Nigerians because Nigeria is so much divided along many primordial interests and many interests that are self-centred that we need to address.
“No country in the world can prosper and work in unity if the country is so divided. So, one of the responsibilities of Labour Party is to unite Nigerians along a common goal of development and prosperity.
“Let us organise at all levels. Let us send a message at all levels. I assure you that as Britain did it in 1945 when all the structures were actually won by the Labour Party and recently… Australia also did the same.
“It’s not that we don’t have we have structures; human beings are the structures. It is just to activate the structures and put them to use. It’s just like a weapon in military circles. You service them when the need arises.
“So, need has (arisen) for all the structures of the political commission of both TUC and NLC to be activated in all the 774 local governments. Importantly, also the structures of all our affiliates, both TUC and NLC, membership together is 12 million.”
NLC boss, however, defended the youth of the country, insisting that they are not lazy and have been failed by various governments.
“I am so happy that the youths have aligned themselves with the structures and the struggles of the working class – we, their parents – because we are actually parents to the students and the youths because they are actually realized that agonizing alone without organizing cannot take us anywhere,” he said.
