NLC President Mobilises Workers For Uba

The Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) President, Abdulwaheed Omar, said last Sunday that he would lead the Labour Party (LP) governorship campaign in Anambra State even as he called on workers in the state to learn from the gains of the Labour Party governments in both Edo and Ondo states.
Omar also urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to stop flexing muscles and return to the negotiating table.
Briefing journalists at the weekend after its 16th National Executive Council (NEC), Comrade Omar said that workers in Anambra State had suffered in the previous regimes and wondered why they would toy with the opportunity to put in place a LP government in the state.
While endorsing the candidature of Ifeanyi Uba, the NLC leader said, “we have now resolved that we will not only go and cast our votes and fold our arms after sensitizing the workers and other Nigerians, but we will monitor the collation, the counting up to the declaration of the results. We will encourage every workers to ensure he or she will be part of the monitoring.
“Anambra is a very unique area, particularly to workers because if you go and ask Anambra workers if they are fully enjoying their minimum wage, you will hear their answer; whether they are very comfortable in their various places of work, you will hear the answer. Not only workers, even market women and other people, therefore I think Anambra people are desperately looking for a change and a change for the better,” he said.
He said that the LP would campaign in Anambra State the way it did in Edo and Ondo states, saying, “we will even do more; we will tell the skeptics that Labour is the party that Nigerians need if they want development as being witnessed in Edo and Ondo states.”
Meanwhile, the LP, which noted that the nation’s education sector is in comatose, also threatened to join the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to demonstrate if the Senate remove workers’ issue from the exclusive legislative list to concurrent list.