The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Joe Ajero, has said that the Labour union has no apology for forming a political party of its own.
Speaking on Channels TV, Ajaero said;
‘’We do not have an apology for forming the Labour Party. Historically, the Labour Party is organized and formed by trade unions all over the world and I have said elsewhere that in early 1918 down the line to 1945, Michael Imodu came up with the Labour Party, 1964, Semi Imodu and a few others. 1987, Pascal Agbafia. 2003 Adams Oshiomole who later became chairman of APC.
Within the time Adams was contesting for governorship, the Labour Party aligned with those that formed APC, to sponsor Adams for him to enjoy a joint ticket. Then it wasn’t a crime if the Labour Party decided to form an alliance with other political parties. Thereafter we changed to have our own party. Today, we are not aligned with any political party and we do not have apologies for forming a party that will be beneficial to ordinary Nigerians. Just like that the other parties are meant for other Nigerians to be used, all the members of the Labour Party are not workers or trade unionists. If you check the people in the National Assembly today, they are not members of any Labour union. The same thing with the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He is not in any way related with any Labour union. So, any Nigerian that wants to belong to the Labour Party is free to belong to the Labour Party”
