New Labour Leaders Set To Rekindle Workers’ Hope

As the organised Labour
Leaders in the country gathered in Abuja for this year’s delegates conference to elect new leaders for the Labour movement, expectations are high that the new leadership will rekindle  workers’ hope in the congress, ability to protect  workers  welfare in Nigeria.
Speaking to newsmen on the  expectation of the  new  leadership, the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) Secretary  General Comrade Peter  Adeyemi said  that the organised Labour has not failed Nigerian workers  and the masses.
Adeyemi said that the organised Labour at the end of the election must re-enact the ideal that the Labour Movement stands for to protect the Nigerian Workers against obnoxious policies of government.
The NASU scribe said that the Labour  expectation  is that the congress at the end of the election would be able to produce  visionary, effective, functional leadership that will restore the lost glory of the  number one  Labour centre in Nigeria.
He said the Labour has not lost its firebrand and activism  in the  present day Nigeria, stressing that the NLC still represent  the hope of the  workers as it used to be in the previous years.
Adeyemi said it is  true that Labour leaders have different  styles of leadership, but stressed that an  average Labour leader  would be quick  always to defend  the disposition of Labour and the workers in the present sphere of reality in  Nigeria .

Philip Okparaji