The assembly called for the immediate resignation of the duo at a press briefing in Lagos State on Friday.
The Labour Veterans and Trade Unionists' Assembly has demanded the immediate resignation of the Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, over the scandal rocking the Labour Party.
The assembly called for the immediate resignation of the duo at a press briefing in Lagos State on Friday.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the Labour Veterans and Trade Unionists' Assembly asked for a thorough forensic examination and investigation into the finances of the Labour Party under the leadership of Julius Abure.
The group described what is going on in the Labour Party under the watch of "power-drunk" Barrister Julius Abure as a rape on democracy.
Speaking for the group, Comrade Isah Tijjani, a former Vice President, Nigeria Labour Congress and a former Presidential Aspirant in LP, also knocked Abure for making unilateral decisions and flouting the constitution of the Labour Party.
Comrade Tijani knocked Abure and Ajaero for engaging needlessly dissipated and raging battle for personal aggrandisement.
He stated that while the leadership of both the Labour Party and the NLC are focusing their full attention on petty squabbles, these rifts are being optimally exploited by the governments at all levels to introduce unpalatable economic measures aimed at keeping the workers and their poor families in a permanent state of abominable penury and social deprivation.
He said, “From the FG's sudden and abrupt withdrawal of petroleum subsidy, to the drastic devaluation of the national currency and the newly announced insensitive hikes in the costs of electricity tariff, the abysmal failure of the leaders of the Labour Unions and the Labour Party to provide credible challenge to these anti-people policies are indeed sufficient basis, for Nigerian workers to demand their resignation, without any further delay.
“When you devote adequate time to examine the perfunctory manner with which the Ajaero's NLC, is handling the ongoing Award and the Minimum Wage negotiations, it would be crystal clear to you, that not much should be expected to come out from these razzmataz labour haggles.
“It is a sad commentary that many years after the adoption of the current N30,000 minimum wage, more than ten (10) state governors, fully aware of the endemic weakness of the unions officials, have against all entreaties refused to pay the agreed amount.
“So, on both sides of the Labour front, the reality of the situation is that, workers have been made to suffer a crushing defeat, from which they will continue to leak their open wounds and also find it extremely difficult to quickly heal.
“Given the overwhelming evidence assiduously marshalled and the arrays of well established cases of financial recklessness brought forward by the treasurer of the party against the party's chairman and in full cognizance of the woeful failure of comrade Joe Ajaero to rise to the challenge demanded by his office, thereby scoring below average in leadership performance, we, the Assembly of Labour Veterans and Trade Unionists strongly lend our voice to the open call for both Barrister Julius Abure and Comrade Joe Ajaero to resign forthwith.”