…Shuts Party Secretariat
MEMBERS of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) earlier today picketed the national secretariat of the Labour Party (LP) in Abuja while calling for the postponement of the party’s convention.
The police are still trying to keep the peace at the gates of the property at the time of filing this report.
The NLC is also calling for the immediate resignation or removal of Julius Abure as national chairmañ of the LP.
NLC members bearing placards with different inscriptions, gyrated and sang songs from a loudspeaker placed in a stationary van.
The NLC had asked its members in the states to picket all secretariat of the LP nationwide over the “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC” by Abure.
NLC has repeatedly accused Abure of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.
Eighteen-Eleven Media