This was contained in a statement the NLC Political Commission issued on Friday, which was signed by its Secretary, Comrade Chris Uyot.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that with the picketing and taking possession of the Labour Party offices nationwide, Mr. Julius Abure has now ceased to be the National Chairman of the party.
This was contained in a statement the NLC Political Commission issued on Friday, which was signed by its Secretary, Comrade Chris Uyot.
The commission regretted that instead of courageously coming out to the open to defend himself against several fingers pointing in his direction, Abure has adopted the cowardly posture of crouching in the "undergrowth of shame, lies, treachery and infamy to lay fictitious claims against a dignified, focused and honourable institution like the Nigeria Labour Congress".
Titled: "AS JULIUS ABURE’S SILHOUETTE HIDES FROM THE LAW… HE LEAVES BEHIND A TRAIL OF LIES, TREACHERY AND INFAMY," the commission said that the real owner of the labour party has taken over while Abure has continued to hide from the long arms of the law over various allegations and charges bordering on criminality.
"First is to make the point clear that Mr. Julius Abure has since ceased from being the Chairman of the Labour Party," the commission noted.
"Second, his latest missive that the successful takeover of the Labour Party Secretariat by workers who are the party’s rightful owners resulted in the theft of staff salaries is sarcastic and pathetic. Unfortunately, Mr. Abure has surrendered himself to the laboratory of public opprobrium on how the mind of an incorrigible liar, visionless usurper, timid traitor, and serial scammer works."
Faulting the allegations by Abure that members of the NLC carted away documents and money for the payment of workers during the picketing of the party's national secretariat, the NLC said that the reclaiming of LP Secretariats across the country was witnessed by many policemen, officers from the State Security Service, and many journalists including television crews.
"The import of Mr. Abure’s fictitious claim is that the police, other security agents, and tens of journalists who observed the peaceful visit by the Nigeria Labour Congress Political Commission were accessory to the crime of petty theft. We expect the Nigeria Police and other security agencies to add this outrageous defamation to the long list of crimes perpetrated by Mr. Abure," it said.
The commission unequivocally stated that there is no going back as the Labour Party must be thoroughly cleansed and repositioned as the vehicle for the socio-economic emancipation of all Nigerian workers and people.
The statement added: "During the nationwide peaceful reclaim of Labour Party’s secretariats, not even one canister of tear gas was fired as the picketing was conducted in tandem with the NLC’s philosophy and disposition to peaceful protests. For Abure to concoct such daylight falsehood proves to all Nigerians that he carries moral leprosy and must be avoided at all costs. The inconsistency in Abure’s account – from allegations of missing billions now to the theft of workers’ salaries and destruction of valuables - clearly confirms our earlier assessment of him as a drowning political wannabe.
"After being rejected by all stakeholders in the Labour Party, we urge Mr. Julius Abure to show his face in public. He should not hide underground and be vomiting gibberish. The few insignificant scoundrels still hanging on to Abure’s tattered pockets of ill-gotten coins, including irresponsible grandfathers who have committed class suicide and show no visible means of livelihood, and who now appear on television to lie on Labour Party ownership must remember that history’s judgement on traitors is very dire.
"As for Abure, his cup of moral rascality, administrative indiscretion, and political incompetence overflows. The Nigeria Labour Congress intends to institute a private legal process against him for the defamation of the noble character of the Congress. He should also be ready to answer questions on why he kept staff salaries in the office – a self-admission to financial impropriety, sleaze, and disdain for due process cum accountability.
"While the security agents intensify their nationwide manhunt for Mr. Julius Abure and his ‘food is ready’ partners in perfidy, the Nigeria Labour Congress Political Commission wishes to remind all Nigerian workers and people that our focus can never be a tiny chameleon who lives under the coarse cannon of common criminality and fodders of low-level infamy.
"We are focussed on fumigating and ridding the Labour Party of rodents whose only source of livelihood and survival is in picking on the mahogany of ideological and moral clarity that the Labour Party of Nigeria represents."