We Have Not Failed Nigerians—NLC

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, says it has not stopped fighting for the masses as being speculated in some quarters.

Recently, there have been beliefs that the labour union was no longer giving the Nigerian government a tough time, which used to be the case in the past, especially during the military regime and the Olusegun Obasanjo tenure as civilian president from 1999 to 2007.

President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, who spoke on Raypower’s programme on Monday morning, ‘Fact File’, said the labour has not been compromised as being insinuated.

“We have not gone to sleep. We are still on the side of the Nigerian populace; nobody has compromised us,” Wabba said on the programme, which was monitored by Aproko247.

Wabba said the NLC is still very active like the days of Adams Oshiomhole, who then used the union to force the government of Obasanjo to change some policies that were then viewed as anti-people.

The NLC president said every Nigerians should be involved in governance, stressing that it is not purely a labour function.

Earlier, Wabba denied reports that the union has asked embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to resign from office because of his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday night, the NLC boss said the union is a law abiding institution that believes in the rule of law and due process and thus could not have asked for such without recourse to the law.

“The NLC believes in the rule of law and we believe that whatever is right should be done. By our laws, the mere alleging that somebody has committed an offense, by our laws we don’t judge the person as guilty as pronounced by a court of law.

“To me that would be following due process and the rule of law than to midway begin to make pronouncement and criminalize people. I think what is right should be done rightly,” Wabba said in the statement.