Natasha: NLC president Ajaero knocked over strike threat
Civil Society Coalition for the Defence of Democracy in Nigeria has flayed the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, over his threat to embark on strike if the suspended senator representing Kogi Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is not recalled. The coalition, in a press […]
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Civil Society Coalition for the Defence of Democracy in Nigeria has flayed the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, over his threat to embark on strike if the suspended senator representing Kogi Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is not recalled.
The coalition, in a press conference at the weekend in Abuja by its spokesperson, Comrade Peter Nwokolo, described such a threat to embark on an indefinite strike as an assault to democracy and undue interference on the judiciary’s role of adjudication, adding that the judiciary should be allowed to determine the matter.
It condemned the NLC president’s partisanship to in the matter, urging him to channel his energy in addressing serious national issues of hunger, insecurity, as well as the welfare of the Nigerian workers.
The coalition urged him to resign and join politics rather than romancing with politicians and interfering with the matter of the Senate.
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“That the matter is still before a court of competent jurisdiction and therefore sub judice, we consider the actions of Comrade Ajaero, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, threatening to embark on an indefinite strike if the senator is not recalled as an unsavory assault on the principle of democracy and undue interference in the judiciary’s role to adjudicate on national issues.
“Our coalition hereby calls on the NLC to stop meddling with the constitutionally assigned role of the Senate and spare itself the odium it has occasioned,” he said.