Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) picketed the national secretariat of the Labour Party (LP) in Abuja on Wednesday, while calling for the postponement of the party’s convention.
At the time of reporting, the police is still trying to keep the peace at the gates of the property.
The NLC is also calling for the immediate resignation or removal of Julius Abure as national chair of the LP.
Outside the terraces of the secretariat, NLC members bearing placards with different inscriptions, gyrated and sang along to solidarity songs oozing from a loudspeaker placed in a stationary van.
In a press statement issued on Tuesday, the NLC had asked its members in the states to picket all secretariats of the LP nationwide over the “financial rascality and contempt for the leadership of NLC” by Abure.
NLC has repeatedly accused Abure of “unilaterally trying to hold a national convention in contravention of the constitution of the party”.
The NLC had last week passed a vote of no confidence on Abure and called for his resignation as chairman of the LP.
The NLC also alleged that Abure is running the affairs of the LP like a sole administrator.
The LP in its reaction said if Joe Ajaero, NLC president, is desperate to succeed Abure as LP chairman, he should resign as NLC president and contest during the party’s national convention.