The Nigeria Labour Congress has denied stories that it has withdrawn from the deliberate nationwide protest in opposition to financial hardship scheduled for August 1.
The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, stated the union can’t withdraw from a protest that it didn’t organise.
This was contained in a Tuesday press launch signed by Ajaero titled, ‘The Nigeria Labour Congress can’t withdraw from a protest that it didn’t organise.’
“A information report of the withdrawal of the Nigeria Labour Congress from the broadly mentioned nationwide protest has been dropped at our consideration. The Nigeria Labour Congress debunks such a narrative as patently false.
“The reality is that the Nigeria Labour Congress can’t withdraw from a protest that it didn’t organise. It is just the organisers of the speculated nationwide protest that may resolve to drag out or proceed with the protest,” Ajaero stated.
Ajaero defined that the NLC has a structured decision-making course of, which incorporates inside commerce union mechanisms and management approval, that guides its industrial actions, resembling protests, to make sure consideration earlier than taking motion.
“But, the truth that the Nigeria Labour Congress isn’t the physique organising the protest doesn’t imply that Organised Labour is oblivious of the dire residing circumstances Nigerians have been subjected to by the cruel financial insurance policies of presidency,” he clarified.
He stated the NLC is standing in solidarity with the Nigerian folks in these “making an attempt and excruciating instances.”
Ajaero additionally referred to as on President Bola Tinubu to ask the leaders of the protest motion to dialogue on their calls for.
“As soon as once more, we implore the Federal Authorities and the sub-national governments to hearken to the cries of the Nigerian folks and do the needful. In spite of everything, it’s stated that the voice of the folks is the voice of God,” he stated.
The deliberate protest has gained traction on social media, the place it’s trending beneath the hashtags ‘#EndBadGovernance,’ ‘#TinubuMustGo’ and ‘#Revolution2024.’
The Presidency and police authorities have referred to as on youths to desert the plan