On Thursday, the organized labour movement announced an alliance with the Cuban government and a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, to rescue the country from “poor governance.”
Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore; former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko; Zenith Labour Party, and other tiny political parties are also joining forces with Nigerian workers under the auspices of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
The Labour Party has ordered all workers in the formal and informal sectors to abandon being members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claiming that the two parties have wrecked the country.
Quadri Olaleye, President of the TUC, stated this in Abuja while speaking at a conference organized by the congress titled ‘Political Roundtable on Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria.’ He added that Nigerian workers have resolved to stop being onlookers while politicians continue to destroy the country’s economy.
Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, National Chairman of the Labour Party, speaking at the conference, claimed that the Nigerian workers providing life support to politicians in the APC and the PDP are responsible for how bad the country has become.
