Real Reason Why NLC President Is ‘Fighting’ Me – Uzodinma Speaks

Real Reason Why NLC President Is ‘Fighting’ Me – Uzodinma Speaks

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has alleged that the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, is opposing his administration due to his own political motives.

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Speaking to reporters at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday, Governor Uzodinma, who is seeking reelection on the APC platform, made this assertion.

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Accompanied by two other APC governorship candidates from Bayelsa and Kogi states, Governor Uzodinma received his governorship flag from President Bola Tinubu in preparation for the November 11th election in Imo State.

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Tensions arose in Imo State on Wednesday when reports emerged of an altercation involving thugs and police officers allegedly attacking Mr. Ajaero and other NLC members gathered at the union’s council secretariat in anticipation of a planned protest.

The NLC’s national leadership later claimed that Mr. Ajaero was apprehended by police operatives in the state. The union also accused Governor Uzodinma of orchestrating the attack and arrest of the NLC president in order to thwart the planned protest.

The workers had decided to stage the protest in response to alleged violations and abuses of workers’ rights and privileges by Governor Uzodinma’s administration.

Subsequently, the police in Imo State clarified that they did not arrest Mr. Ajaero, but rather took the union president into “protective custody” to shield him from potential harm by a mob.

The NLC later accused the police in Imo State of subjecting Mr. Ajaero to brutal treatment during his apprehension.

“Immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles,” Benson Upah, the NLC spokesperson, said in a statement Wednesday evening.

“Thoroughly brutalised, his right eye at the time of the contact was completely shut. His phones, money and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him,” he added while confirming the release of the NLC president.

“What has happened in this ugly coincidence is that the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress is from Imo state and has not been able to demarcate the difference between being a national leader of an organisation and then an interested party in local politics,” Mr Uzodinma said.

The governor suggested that Mr Ajaero was being used by unnamed opposition political parties to blackmail his government.

“…There is an attempt to mix up partisan politics or an attempt to blackmail my government, but I can tell you that my people are already aware,” he stated.

He claimed that he had gained the trust of the Imo Chapter of the NLC and further alleged that some unnamed opposition political parties were fighting to cause distrust.

“I have convinced my workers in Imo State to believe in me, and that trust is what opposition parties are trying to fight,” the governor said.

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