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LPPMC backs NLC over suspension of proposed LP national convention
A group within the Labour Party (LP), Labour Party Patriotic Members Congress (LPPMC), has thrown its weight behind the national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), calling for indefinite suspension of the proposed national convention of the party.
The group in a release by its National Coordinator, Dr. Kingsley Okundaye, while charging the National Working Committee (NWC) to listen to voice of wisdom and suspend the proposed national convention, stated that this will give room for wider consultation of all the stakeholders of the party.
It called on the NLC to invoke the doctrine of necessity with relevant laws and court judgements within its disposals to save the party from collapse, urging the presidential candidate of the party, Mr. Peter Obi, Governor Alex Otti of Abia State and other critical stakeholders to back the NLC.
The group enjoined aggrieved members of the party to sheath their swords and listen to the founding fathers, the organised Labour towards rejigging and repositioning of the party to winning ways, noting that the will of the people and party supremacy must prevail at all times.
The statement read in part, “The party constitution and the electoral umpire (INEC), have clearly stipulated guidelines on how Conventions should be conducted peacefully. The perceived affront and flagrant disobedience to those regulations with its attendant divisiveness, isolation, manipulations and exclusion of all the critical Stakeholders by the National Chairman, Mr Abure and his cohorts, can’t be condoned by patriotic members of this party; most especially, when such calculated sinister move is capable of ruining the very last fiber for peace and unity in our dear party. Hence, patriotism and wisdom demand that we as a Party, strictly adhere thus, to the followings:
“That, the proposed Convention be restrained, cancelled and or suspended indefinitely, to give room for wider and adequate consultations of the Stakeholders and the members of the party, in line with the constitutional provisions, for a unified future Congresses and Convention.
“We call on the organised Labour, NLC, to invoke the doctrine of necessity with relevant laws and court judgements within their disposals, to foster the proposed CTC from the Akwanga list of NWC, that will serve as a neutral entity towards conducting a harmonised and peaceful elections, congresses and convention within this year. We recommend that their membership should be equally drawn from both sides of the opposing NWC leaderships – without those that are encumbered.
“In our firm stance, we enjoin, His Excellency Peter Obi, our performing Governor, Dr Alex Otti, all our revered elected members in the various houses of Assembly and Senate, critical Stakeholders and the great Obi-dient family alike, to boldly and feistily espouse the taken over of the National Secretariat of the party by the NLC, in order to engender peace and forestall any brewing dis-orderliness and rascality that could cause destruction of lives and properties within her premises. Let all hands be on deck. This is not the time to sit on the fence.
“The leadership of LPPMC is following up with the organised Labour as it had seen reasons to intervene timeously against the confusion in the party, also to have borrowed leaves from our RESOLUTION passed on the 25th Feb, 2024, which anchors on the ways and means of ending these protracted National leadership tussles in the LP. That is typical of humility and uncommon knack of responsiveness in their leadership styles.
“We pledge herewith, to support, and promulgate every legal move that will allow peace, unity and progress a chance in the National leadership of Labour Party; as we call once more, on all the aggrieved and affected NWC members of the party, to sheath their swords and follow the trails with our founding father, the organised Labour, in rejigging and REPOSITIONING this party to the winning ways, come future elections. It is pertinent to note that, the will of the people and party supremacy must prevail at all times.”
