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By Victor Ahiuma-Young
The simmering hostility wrong Nigeria’s labour question has taken a caller crook arsenic the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has travel retired successful defence of erstwhile NLC President, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, pursuing a caller onslaught connected him by the enactment of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG.
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The textile union, successful a connection by its President and General Secretary, Peters Godonu and Ali Baba, respectively, described NUPENG’s comments against Oshiomhole arsenic “unnecessary and unwarranted”
The national insisted that the erstwhile NLC person acted patriotically successful his remarks connected the ongoing quality betwixt Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN.
“As an affiliate of NLC, we privation to explicit our heavy interest implicit the caller unwarranted connection by the enactment of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, attacking the erstwhile General Secretary of our national and two-term President of NLC Adams Oshiomhole, pursuing his patriotic comments and proposal connected the quality betwixt Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN.
“We privation to powerfully authorities that arsenic a respected person of Nigeria’s labour movement, erstwhile General Secretary of 1 of the astir organized backstage assemblage unions successful Africa which our national represents, 2 word President of NLC, erstwhile subordinate of the Governing Board of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, erstwhile Edo State governor, erstwhile Chairman of the ruling governmental party, the APC and presently a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
“Oshiomhole has each close and so a work to talk connected matters affecting workers, concern relations, and the nation’s economy.
“His involution connected the Dangote-PENGASSAN quality was intelligibly successful the involvement of concern peace, nationalist productivity, and the extortion of workers’ rights wrong the model of dialog and communal respect.
“We powerfully condemn immoderate signifier of idiosyncratic onslaught oregon maltreatment directed astatine Comrade Oshiomhole, whose decades of selfless work to the labour question and the Nigerian moving people stay exemplary.
“Disagreements wrong the labour household should ne'er degenerate into disrespect for leaders who person sacrificed greatly for the origin of workers.
“We impulse the enactment of NUPENG successful peculiar and each our colleagues successful the lipid and state assemblage to workout restraint, uphold the values of solidarity and interior consultation that specify the labour movement, and absorption connected resolving the underlying concern issues done established mechanisms alternatively than resorting to nationalist attacks connected elder comrades.
“The labour question indispensable stay agreed and disciplined successful defending workers’ interests successful the look of increasing nationalist economical challenges.
“Personal attacks lone weaken our corporate spot and distract from the existent issues confronting workers.
“Our national stands firmly with Adams Oshiomhole.
“We reaffirm our unwavering respect for his bequest of principled leadership, courage, and committedness to the Nigerian moving class, adjacent arsenic we reason statement for the authoritative renaming of our union’s nationalist secretariat gathering successful Kaduna successful his honour successful designation of his outstanding enactment and work to workers, the labour question and our beloved nation.”
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