The body re-emphasized that the Labour Party belongs to the NLC, while stressing that Abure violated a court order on the ownership of the party.
As the political crisis in the Labour Party deepens, the Political Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress has maintained that no amount of "vituperations from a drowning wannabe ‘politrickster’ like the Labour Party, National Chairman, Julius Abure, will stop them from taking over the party.
In a statement titled "Nigerian Workers And People Have No Time For The Tantrums Of A Drowning Political Wannabe," the commission said that Abure has lost the confidence of most of the critical stakeholders in the party.
Signed by the Chairman and Secretary of NLC Political Commission, Comrade Titus Amba and Comrade Chris Uyot respectively, the body re-emphasized that the Labour Party belongs to the NLC, while stressing that Abure violated a court order on the ownership of the party.
The statement reads: “The laughable, pathetic and incongruous gibberish by Mr. Julius Abure through his hireling would have been completely ignored by the leadership of the NLC Political Commission.
“We, however, have a duty to keep workers and Nigerians focused on the fact that Mr. Abure has severally violated a court judgement and an INEC supervised terms of settlement that mandate an all-inclusive National Convention of the Labour Party.
“While Mr. Julius Abure seeks to evade the fundamental issues raised in our last press release where we demanded his immediate resignation for convening a National Convention that he had no sole proprietorship over, we wish to remind him that the Nigeria Labour Congress remains the institutional trustees of the Labour Party. This statement of truth is backed by the fact of history, law and court pronouncement. This provides the premise for our demand as a critical stakeholder for Abure’s resignation.
“In the event that Mr. Julius Abure has suddenly developed selective amnesia, we wish to remind him, as stated in our last press release, that a 20th March 2018 judgment by Justice Gabriel Kolawole pronounced that Labour Party is owned by the Nigeria Labour Congress and that an all-inclusive National Convention should be held to right all the wrongs that the likes of Mr. Abure have foisted on the Labour Party for some time now."
It added, “We understand the psychological trauma imposed on an impostor when the owners of the house come knocking. It is not our fault that Mr. Julius Abure has consistently demonstrated a lack of respect for court judgements, agreements and more recently contempt for his elders in the labour movement. Clearly, the little coins clanging on the neck of the stray dog appear to have deafened its ears not to hear the whistle.
“Nigerian workers and other stakeholders in the Labour Party have resolved that the Labour Party must be fully recovered and repositioned as a political vehicle for the benefit of sincere and patriotic politicians who are committed to making a genuine impact in the lives of ordinary. Nothing will change that.
"Not a thousand vituperations from a drowning wannabe ‘politrickster’ who has lost the confidence of most of the critical stakeholders in the Labour Party. Nigerian workers have and will always take back whatever is legitimately ours, especially with the law behind us.”
The commission, however, appealed to Nigerian workers, leaders and members of the Labour Party to continue to openly identify with what it described as a "collective strive to recover, reconstruct and reposition the Labour Party as the ideologically primed political vehicle for the emancipation of Nigerian workers and people from the terrible governance of the past four decades."
"We will prevail," the NLC maintained.
The commission maintained that the emergence of Mr. Julius Abure and his ilk is alien to the Labour Party’s Constitution.
It said, "Mr. Abure should tell the world which national convention produced him. His poor grasp of party processes as shown in his uncouth response to the caution by the Labour Party’s House of Representatives Caucus to follow due process in planning the party’s convention clearly situates him as a sponsored agent bent on destroying the Labour Party.
"Workers who are not shareholders in the looting bazar by a few national officers of the Labour Party are not in any mood to exchange words with him. All that interests Nigerian workers is that the Labour Party should be repositioned to deal with the myriad of governance issues rooted in broken politics that have obstructed our quest for decent work and a dignified life.
"The NLC Political Commission as the midwife of the Labour Party will not jettison this mandate placed on our shoulders by Nigerian workers. Not even a thousand and one lies, blackmail, divide-and-rule antics, name-dropping and grandstanding by the ilk of Mr. Julius Abure bothers us."