We won’t recognise Akure LP’s convention, says NLC

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will not accept any leadership emerging from Saturday’s National Convention of the Labour Party (LP).
The convention elected the LP’s former National Chairman, Dan Nwanyanwu, as the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees.
NLC General Secretary Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson told The Nation in a telephone interview that the workers’  body would not accept any leadership that emerged from the Akure convention, which he described as flawed.
The NLC, he added, would come out with a definite position within the week after due consultation with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other stakeholders on the way forward.
He noted that the LP was founded by the unions, adding that they were not parties to whatever came out of the convention, which took place in Akure.
But the NLC and the TUC had, at a news conference two days to the convention, said that they would not accept attempt at making the LP an appendage of another political party.
The unions said they were against a governor who belongs to another party sponsoring and hosting the national convention of LP.
They called for the postponement of the convention for stakeholders to meet and decide on another venue and date for the convention, asking all members of the party to ignore the call to go to Akure to attend the convention.



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