The leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday warned factional chairman of the Labour Party, Lamido Bashir Apapa, to stay away from the party.
President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, who issued the warning at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, during a solidarity visit, described Apapa and his team as “rodents that will be fumigated with insecticides”
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He said nobody can scuttle the ideal and ideologies of the party including ongoing cases at tribunal.
“For some time now, we’ve not been visiting our house. We decided to visit our house this afternoon after getting some information that there are some rodents trying to move into our house.
“We have come with some insecticides to fumigate the house against any rodent that is illegally trying to enter our property. That’s why we are here.
“Incidentally, we didn’t see any rodents, but we will comb around and see whether there are any. The Labour Party is a child of circumstances. It was formed when we lost almost all confidence in existing political parties, and we felt that the Labour Party would be an ideal political party that would represent our ideological persuasion. That was why it was formed,” he said.
Ajaero, who was accompanied by the NLC General-Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, TUC leaders and other labour leaders as well as hundreds of workers, said as trustees of the party, no one has power to occupy any position in the party without their consent.
It would be recalled that a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, had ordered Abure to stop parading himself as the national chairman of the party a week after a ward in the Edo State chapter of the party suspended him over alleged anti-party activities.
Shortly after the court order, the party’s national vice chairman, Lamido Bashir Apapa, who had been accused of being sponsored by the opposition parties, took over the party in acting capacity.
But in another twist, a High Court in Benin also gave an order, restraining anybody from removing the embattled party chairman from his office.
