The Political Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has voided the national convention that returned Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party and the National Working Committee of the Party, The Nation reports.
The Nation said that the Commission also agreed to set up a Transition Committee to manage the affairs of the party in the interim.
The Transition Committee was given three months to conduct an inclusive national convention for the Labour Party.
The commission took the decision in a communique at the end of a one – day stakeholders meeting in Abuja attended by some members of the Labour Party, chairmen of the political commission from the 36 States and FCT as well as founding fathers of the Party.
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The communique was signed by Acting Chairman of the Political Commission, Theophilus Ndubuaku; former president of NLC, Abdulwahed Omar and Chairman, Board of Trustees of Labour Party, Sylvester Ejiofor.
The political commission passed a vote of no confidence on the purported convention and the leadership that emerged from it.
According to the communique, stakeholders resolved that the transition committee should conduct the affairs of the party pending the conduct of an all-inclusive and expansive national convention.
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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.
The stakeholders said once constituted, the transition committee should fully take over the secretariats of the party across the country.
It reads in part: “That the Transition Committee shall immediately set up an asset recovery process for all the properties of the Labour Party.
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“The 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.
“It should ensure that the culprits are diligently prosecuted as demanded by leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi.
”It is unfortunate that the actions of these few dishonourable characters have splashed mud on the white satin of Labour Party.
”In pursuance of the foregoing, the Transition Committee is mandated by the stakeholders meeting to begin the process of revalidating current members of the Labour Party.
“Also 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.
“It is expected that this mobilisation drive will yield, in the first instance, a total membership strength of 10 million.”
The stakeholders said with the communiqué the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and all the relevant security organisations in Nigeria were hereby notified of the new developments in the Party.
They agreed that INEC and others should be officially notified immediately to recognise the Transition Committee as the interim leadership of the Labour Party.
They reiterated that the Labour Party was a party for all Nigerians regardless of ethnic, religious, regional, social, and economic orientation or status.
