The Political Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress has appointed former President of the Congress, Abduwaheed Omar, to lead a Transition Committee that is to reposition the troubled party.
The Omar-led committee is expected to conduct an all-inclusive national convention within the next three months.
Other members of the committee include Prof. Sam Amadi and Abiodun Olamosu, who were appointed as Co-chairmen to work with Comrade Omar, while Mr. Nnawuihe Nwauwa is expected to serve as Secretary of the Committee.
Former Presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, was represented at the meeting by the Spokesman, Peter Obi Media Reach, Yunusa Tanko.
At the second meeting of stakeholders of the party on Wednesday in Abuja, the leaders also resolved to set up 13 sub-committees to oversee every aspect of the administration of the Labour Party.
Addressing journalists shortly after the stakeholders’ meeting, Vice Chairman of the NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, said the stakeholders met to implement the resolutions earlier reached at its inaugural meeting.
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Ndubuaku said with the setting up of the transition committee, the Labour Party no longer has a leadership vacuum, adding that the Committee was expected to commence work immediately.
He said: “We have decided to put in place a transition committee in view of the vacuum of leadership that exists in the Labour Party. In view of that, the stakeholders have unanimously resolved that former president of the NLC, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar should head the Transition Committee of the Labour Party.
“Also, two Co-chairmen, Prof. Sam Amadi and Abiodun Olamosu, were appointed to work with Comrade Omar, while Mr. Nnawuihe Nwauwa is to serve as Secretary of the Committee.”
In March, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, was returned elected from the national convention of the party which took place in Nnewi, Anambra State.
But the NLC rejected the outcome of the convention, saying that Abure was deceiving himself by parading himself as the national chairman of the LP.
Ndubuaku said that 13 sub-committees were also appointed to take care of different aspects of the administration of the transition committee which will work to conduct a national convention of the party as soon as possible within the next three months
He said that members of the 13 sub-committees were drawn from different stakeholders of the Labour Party, covering the entire country, including former members of the National Working Committee.
Omar pledged to work assiduously and together with other members of the transition committee to deliver on the mandate given to them.
He said that the transition committee will resume duties by today (Thursday) with a meeting to draw a roadmap of how to quickly reposition the affairs of the Labour Party that has suffered significant damage in the hands of the Julius Abure-led executive.
When asked to defend the emergence of the transition committee and whether it has the backing of the party’s constitution, Omar said that the stakeholders relied on the 2009 constitution of the Labour Party as the authentic and binding one.
Omar further said that the new transition committee will not do anything to undermine the interest of the party in the off-circle elections, so long as the emergence of the candidates did not run foul of the law.
He also responded to the issue of the recent visit of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the LP headquarters, saying that the former governor went to address candidates contesting for FCT council elections.
He said there is clear evidence to show that Obi is strongly in support of the efforts of the Labour Party stakeholders to reposition the party.
Yanusa said there was a need to reconcile all interest groups in the party.
He said that Obi has always emphasized unity and transparency in the handling of the affairs of the party.
