NLC Leaders Stole Money Meant To Pay Workers’ Salaries During Invasion — Abure

The Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and those they led to besiege the Labour Party secretariat on Wednesday have been accused of stealing funds meant for payment of staff salaries, among other valuables.

The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Comrade Julius Abure, made the allegations, describing the action of the labour leaders as a shame and an act of rascality.

The party chairman in a statement signed on his behalf by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, in Abuja, yesterday, said, “What we saw was a show of shame, a show of rascality, an abuse of office and an abuse of the law of the land.

“Nigeria Labour Congress is subject to the law. NLC under Joe Ajaero is not above the law and the law precludes Ajaero and the leadership of NLC from taking laws into their hands, where they besieged the office, broke the fence, destroyed the gates, unlawfully took possession of the secretariat and destroyed properties worth millions of naira.

“Properties stolen, including monies, made for the payment of salaries and other official purposes. This is unfortunate. It is becoming unbecoming.

“I must state today that the leadership of NLC under Joe Ajaero is on the path of destroying the successes we recorded in the 2023 general election.”

But reacting to Abure’s allegation, the Acting Chairman of NLC’s Political Commission, Professor Theophilus Udubuaku, among others, said, the party chairman was suffering selective amnesia.

“Abure should be reminded, since he is now suffering from selective amnesia that it took the picketing by Ajaero-led NLC to drive Lamidi Apapa away from the LP headquarters before he moved in.

“Talking about lies, it speaks much about who Abure really is when he claims that billions of naira were stolen when the picketing was conducted in the presence of scores of policemen, DSS officers and pressmen. These lies alone define Abure as a man who is grossly irresponsible.”

“We would like the Nigerian media to appreciate the fact that NLC is not interested in a media war with a man who thinks he can successfully transform himself into a sole administrator of LP.

“The press is expected to do its duty and fact-check the comments from Abure and his men and call them out as liars.”