NLC grieves, demands probe into Abiodun Aremu’s death

…Says decease tragic nonaccomplishment for Nigerian workers, downtrodden

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and progressive civilian nine groups crossed the state person been plunged into mourning pursuing the untimely decease of Abiodun ‘Aremson’ Aremu, a steadfast champion of the moving class.
Aremu, who was wide regarded arsenic a fearless labour person and ideological teacher, was killed successful a hit-and-run mishap connected Sunday, 12th October 2025, successful his neighbourhood successful Ifo, Ogun State.
The 65-year-old renowned activistic was reportedly knocked down by a hit-and-run conveyance portion crossing the roadworthy to his residence successful Ota, Ogun State, astir 6 p.m. connected Sunday.
In a connection by its President, Joe Ajaero, NLC demanded probe into his decease and described his untimely decease arsenic a tragic nonaccomplishment not lone for the organised labour question but besides for the broader Nigerian populace, peculiarly the downtrodden who benefited from his lifelong conflict for justness and equality.
The connection reads: “The NLC and the full spectrum of progressive civilian nine successful Nigeria are plunged into heavy grief by the tragic and untimely decease of our comrade, teacher, and steadfast General, Comrade Abiodun ‘Aremson’ Aremu. He was taken from america connected the evening of Sunday, 12th October 2025, successful a brutal hit-and-run mishap successful his neighbourhood successful Ifo, Ogun State.
“Comrade Aremu was nary mean man. He was a titan of the people struggle, an integrated intelligence of the moving people, and an unwavering internationalist whose beingness was a testament to unalloyed committedness to the origin of the oppressed. His full governmental beingness was a seamless fusion of revolutionary mentation and factual praxis, dedicated to the emancipation of the moving people and the operation of an egalitarian, socialist society.
“As a cardinal designer of the Labour Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) and different captious platforms specified arsenic the Joint Action Front (JAF), Comrade Aremu played an indispensable relation successful forging unity betwixt the organized moving people and the broader fashionable masses. He understood that the chains of the Nigerian radical could lone beryllium breached done a agreed beforehand against the exploitative capitalist system. He was a existent workers’ General—unyielding, uncompromising, and steadfast.
“Recognizing that the conflict for the aboriginal is besides a conflict for the minds of the youth, helium founded the Amilcar Cabral Institute of Ideological Studies (ACIS). This institute was his ideological acquisition to the movement, a captious instrumentality for conscientizing a caller procreation of revolutionaries, equipping them with the principles of technological socialism and the tone of internationalist solidarity. His enactment extended to the Nigeria Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara and the Nigerian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba.
“The circumstances of his death, a alleged “hit-and-run,” carnivore the marks of a suspicious pattern, reminiscent of the untimely decease of different valiant comrade, Patrick Naagbanton. The Nigeria Labour Congress demands an immediate, transparent, and thorough probe by the Federal and State Governments into this heinous act. We cannot judge this arsenic a specified accident. The Nigerian authorities indispensable guarantee that the perpetrator is apprehended and the afloat information revealed. The moving people deserves nary less.
“As we mourn this colossal loss, we telephone connected each comrades, allies, and Nigerians who yearn for a amended satellite to converge connected Ifo, Ogun State, connected Thursday, 23rd October, to collectively springiness our beloved General a befitting, ideological burial.

“The top tribute we tin wage to this fearless teacher is to immortalize him not conscionable successful tears, but successful action. We indispensable recommit to the ideals helium lived and died for: the relentless conflict against exploitation, the ideological clarity of the left, and the gathering of a wide question susceptible of acquiring powerfulness for the people. We besides telephone connected each to retrieve and enactment the household helium has near behind, who shared him with the struggle.

“Comrade Abiodun Aremu has joined the pantheon of revolutionary ancestors. His assemblage whitethorn person fallen, but his ideas and zeal stay invincible. Nigerian masses volition miss him. Nigerian workers volition retrieve him. NLC mourn...