The Labour Party on Thursday said the leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress are victims of circumstance who are not willing to learn from their past mistakes.
This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh.
The development comes barely two days after the party warned that the congress lacked the power to sack the Julius Abure-National Working Committee.
Ifoh, again on Thursday, labelled the NLC as a bad student of history who keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.
He said, “A good student learns from history. Where people refuse to learn from history, history will continue to repeat itself. When the Nigeria Labour Congress in 2015 attempted to crookedly take over the leadership of the Labour Party and wrote INEC, INEC replied them that they have no locus standi to interfere or change the leadership of the party.
“They have failed to learn from that trajectory and it is surprising that Joe Ajaero’s NLC is also taking the same line of action and trajectory and they are expecting a different result.
“A reasonable NLC would have been thinking of how to consolidate with the leadership of the Labour Party having made huge exploits and having achieved great results from the 2023 general election rather, they have chosen a collision cause which will neither help them nor help Nigerians.”
Reacting to the allegation, the Deputy President of NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, told our correspondent in a phone chat that what the party was doing is reverse psychology.
Ndubuaku stated that it was actually Labour Party, which failed to adhere the consent judgment they had in 2014 that is striving to repeat the mistake of 10 years ago.
“When you read our consent judgment with the LP, you will find out that what happened in 2014 is exactly what is repeating itself today. The party has started doing things that are unconstitutional. They don’t conduct ward, local and state congresses. They just come around and affirm themselves. That is undemocratic. You need to have delegates from all these congresses I mentioned.
“That was exactly what they tried in 2014 and attempting to repeat the same thing today. Of course, we did the same thing we are doing now by sealing the party office and appoint a caretaker committee to do the right thing. We eventually reached an agreement called ‘consent judgment’ after they dragged us to court.
“There was no argument about the fact that LP was registered and owned by the NLC. That was how we agreed in an expansive and all-inclusive national convention. Can you imagine that they are attempting to repeat the same thing 10 years after? How can you even exclude the Obidients Movement from your national convention?” he said.
