Posted 3/26/2024, 12:15:54 AM
Labor Union Pickets Spark Tension Ahead of Opposition Party Convention
- LP insists on going ahead with its national convention on Wednesday as planned, despite NLC's opposition and calls to postpone
- LP wrote letters to top government officials seeking intervention against NLC's "aggression" and vandalization of LP properties
- NLC president Joe Ajaero and union leaders had directed members to picket LP offices across Nigeria to demand the resignation of LP chairman
- LP presidential candidate Peter Obi tried but failed to broker peace between LP and NLC
- NLC says any convention held under current LP chairman would be meaningless and have no recognition