{"id":69597,"date":"2024-04-09T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69597"},"modified":"2024-04-09T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:14:02","slug":"nlc-voids-election-that-returned-abure-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69597","title":{"rendered":"NLC voids election that returned Abure, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has voided the return of the National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure and his National Working Committee at a national convention recently held in Nnewi, Anambra state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">in a communique issued at the end of the NLC Political Commission Stakeholders meeting in Abuja, the Congress passed vote of no-confidence on the purported convention and the leadership that emerged from it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The communique, made available to newsmen in Abuja, was signed by Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, Chairman, NLC Political Commission, Abdulwahed Omar, former President, NLC, S.O.Z. Ejiofor, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Labour Party, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">According to the communiqu\u00e9, NLC approved the constitution of a Transition Committee under the leadership of the NLC Political Commission to manage the affairs of the party in the interim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The stakeholders resolved that the transition committee should conduct the affairs of the party pending the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive National Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">They also noted that, once constituted, the transition committee should fully take over the Secretariat of the party all over Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cThat the Transition Committee shall immediately set up an assets recovery process of all the properties of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cThe Transition Committee shall also ensure that all the cases of fraud, impersonation and forgery of government documents pending against a few discredited former officers of the Labour Party are forensically audited.e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cIt should ensure that the culprits are diligently prosecuted as demanded by leader of the Labour Party \u2013 Mr. Peter Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">They held that that the Transition Committee should, within three months of its constitution ensure the conduct of an inclusive national convention of the Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">They added that the process should start from ward congresses to local government congresses to state congresses culminating in an all-inclusive and expansive National Convention in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201d In pursuant to the foregoing, the Transition Committee is mandated by the stakeholders meeting to begin the process of revalidation of current members of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cAlso the registration of new members through the issuance of new membership cards and receipt of membership dues for the purpose of the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive national convention of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cIt is expected that this mobilisation drive will yield in the first instance a total membership strength of 10 million,\u201d they held.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The stakeholders said, with the communiqu\u00e9, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and all the relevant security organisations in Nigeria were hereby notified of the new development in the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">They agreed that INEC, others should be officially written immediately to recognise the Transition Committee as the interim leadership of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">They reiterated that Labour Party is a party for all Nigerians regardless of ethnic, religious, regional, social and economic orientation or status.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has voided the return of the National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure and his National Working Committee at a national convention recently held in Nnewi, Anambra state. in a communique issued at the end of the NLC Political Commission Stakeholders meeting in Abuja, the Congress passed vote of no-confidence 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