Why NLC, Labour Party locked in supremacy battle
•Pickets Labour Party's secretariats nationwide, insists Abure must go •Says it'll continue to resist illegality •LP kicks, says forcible entry into its HQ, secretariats illegal, criminal THE supremacy fight between Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Labour Party, LP, continued yesterday, with the union picketing the headquarter and secretariats of the party nationwide, insisting the national chairman, Julius Abure, quit office. But the party in a swift reaction, described the forcible entry of NLC members into its headquarter and secretariat illegal and criminal. Speaking when workers occupied the Labour Party headquarters in Abuja, the Deputy President of NLC Political Commission, Dr. Theophilus Ndubuaku, said the picketing was to express workers grievances towards Abure's administration of the party. He said: "Nigeria is not the only country that has a Labour Party backed by Organised Labour. There are so many others. "Why would our own be different, the esse...