The national chairman of Labour Party (LP) Alhaji Abdulkadir Salau has described the move by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to set up a parallel caretaker committee for the party as illegal and futile.
Salau who addressed Journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, said the party did not have anybody for the office of president at the moment.

On the face-off with one of the party's key stakeholders, the labour movement, Salau warned the leadership of the NLC to face squarely the commitments expected of them from the workers rather than dabbling into partisan politics.

It will be recalled that the leadership of the trade union constituted a caretaker committee led by Alhaji Salisu Muhammed to oversee and reposition the Labour Party and convene a credible national convention that will produce leaders based on the ideals of the party.

But Alhaji AbdulSalam, while addressing newsmen in Abuja, said that Alhaji  Muhammed supposed caretaker committee are impostor alleging that "he used to be NLC General Secretary. He was dismissed under Adams Oshiomohle's period as NLC President for gross misconduct".

According to him, Alhaji Muhammed ”is a worker with Bureau of Public Enterprise" and questioned why he is now claiming to be a politician or Chairman caretaker committee of political committee.

The national chairman said: "My advice to the President and General Secretary of NLC is that they should not drag the good name, the integrity we the veterans left behind in Labour into the mud, because already the issue of minimum wage for workers is slipping out of their hands, even the housing contribution for workers is not being properly accounted for".

He also accused the NLC chairman of using workers money to fund the supposed caretaker committee, adding that as at last week they gave money to this "so called caretaker committee to carry out their functions which is illegal but we'll advise them to stop using workers money towards pursuing political fallacy".

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