BY Kingston Magare
Nigeria Labour Congress president Joe Ajero said the union would speedily part ways with Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, if he failed to go along with ideals of Nigeria workers.
Ajero, who was speaking during an interview on Channels TV Tuesday morning hinted that the NLC would have disowned Mr. Obi had he won the 2023 elections and then implemented the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank agenda on Nigeria’s economy revival efforts.
“It (our approach) would have been the worst for anybody flying the flag of the Labour Party to come and implement these policies, to come and adopt the policies of the IMF and the World Bank. It would have been worse for the person. In fact, we would disown the person, he would be on his own. We have to make this distinction clear,” Ajero said.
He added that whoever emerged as Labour Party candidate must have to go along with the ideology of the NLC.
“He (Obi) is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party but does he own NLC or the Labour Party? Why can’t you separate them? Whosoever is the presidential candidate or official of the Labour Party must buy into our projects. If he says he was going to undertake those policies, let him be elected and try such policies.
“Whether a presidential candidate of a party that Labour forms would dictate for Labour? The answer is known to everybody. The policies of Labour, the ideologies of Labour are clear and we are going to pursue it. If anybody is coming with another ideology, he is going to have it tough with us because that is not what we stand for,” Ajero added.
Commenting on the recent increase on electricity tariff by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission he stated: “Unknown to people, this issue of tariff increase is determined by inflation and the value of the currency.
“NERC takes these two major variables to determine tariff increase. Unknown to the same NERC, each time you increase tariffs, it leads to another inflation which within a few months, they would see demand for another tariff increase. And this is happening on and on and there is no control over it.”
