Just In: Joe Ajaero Emerges NLC President, Issues Threat To FG Over Naira, Fuel Scarcity

The General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE Comrade Joe Ajaero has been elected as the new president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.

Comrade Ajaero emerged as a consensus candidate at the end of the Congress’ 13th National Delegates Conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

In his acceptance speech, the new NLC president vowed to mobilise members against the current scarcity of Naira notes if the government failed to address the issue by the end of next week.

He said, “NLC shall continue in its tradition of ensuring that Nigerians are protected from all anti-people policies and that plundering of resources in governance is reduced to the barest minimum while government is assisted to work for the majority. We shall therefore robustly engage government to stop the impunity and pervasive wickedness currently going on in the country in the name of petroleum product pricing.

“The usurpation and use of state power to impoverish the citizenry abuses the ideals of democracy and destroys the nation. Governance ought to provide comfort for the citizenry, so it pains us to witness the increasing frustrations Nigerians have had to go through in the last few months just to fuel their cars and generators, the new phenomenon of black market Naira-buying of our own monies at a discount from illegal brokers.

“We will definitely not keep quiet in the face of this deliberate defilement of citizenship by the ruling elite as we may mobilise variously across the nation to nudge the government to act more responsibly towards the citizenry and seek ways of alleviating the suffering that currently walks our streets with arrogance,” Ajaero declared.