2023: NLC vows to replicate labour party’s victory in Australia

As the Labour Party held its National Convention in Asaba yesterday to elect candidates for the 2023 poll, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has assured Nigerians that victory of Labour Party in Australia last week will be replicate in Nigeria in 2023.
This is even as it warned politicians running to the party for endorsements that the party would not lower its standard nor compromise.
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba said the Congress commend and support the leadership of the Labour Party led by Julius Abure who is a former trade union leader for working with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to reposition the Labour Party. 
“Millions of Nigerian workers and pensioners are latching on the new vigor and vision of the Labour Party to take ownership of the long-suspended delivery of the Nigeria of our collective dreams. 
“Such dreams are epitomized by the success of the Labour Party in different parts of the world. A few days ago, the Labour Party in Australia was overwhelmingly voted into power as Australians yearned for major reforms that would deliver a country that works for all,” he said. 
The NLC however urged the delegates to only elect candidates who subscribe to Workers Charter of Demands.  
According to Wabba, delegates at presidential convention and subsequent ones should be wary of aspirants who only mouth their progressive credentials. Rather he advised delegates that weighty consideration should be given to candidates whose track record demonstrates panache, restraint, integrity and fiscal discipline. 
He said, “We want delegates to elect candidates who are pro-Nigeria and pro-workers and who will unite the country. 
“Our ideal candidates must not be looters but patriots who will transform every kobo earned as revenue by Nigeria into valuable projects that elevate the narrative of our national development. “Our ideal candidates must leave no one behind particularly educated and non-educated youths. We must restore hope in the future of our youths.” 
Wabba enjoined Nigerian youths to continue to identify with the Labour Party and adopt the party fully as their own, noting that the job of unseating and retiring deadwood politicians whose worldview of politics is self-service and nepotism has begun in full earnest. 
The NLC President said that the task will not be easy but just as President Nelson Mandela said: “It appears impossible until it is done”. 
He reiterated that the new Labour Party is the party for workers, pensioners, ordinary Nigerians, the talakawas, the family, papa, mama, ‘pikin’, farmers, market women and men, and small and medium enterprises operators as the party symbolizes a human-centered approach to development. 
He added, “The readiness of the Labour Party to roar is proved by the fact that party’s engagement with the political process in Nigeria is shaped by issues that are dear to the people of Nigeria especially as contained in the Nigerian Workers Charter of Demands. 
“Our Charter of Demands talks about the prioritization of investment in the education and health sectors. Our Charter of Demands places premium interest in the security of lives and property as the foundation of socio-economic renaissance.”