Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has accused the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero of mixing politics with unionism.
Recall that Ajaero was whisked away from the NLC secretariat in Owerri by operatives of the sate’s police command on Wednesday.
However, the organised labour called out security authorities of brutalising, and arresting Ajaero.
Reacting to the development, Imo State Police Command denied arresting the NLC President, saying he was placed in protective custody over safety issues.
Meanwhile, Governor Uzudinma, while addressing questions from the State House reporters, on Thursday, said that it took his intervention before the NLC leaders in Imo who were suspended and replaced with caretaker committee were reinstated.
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He said: “There is an attempt to mix up partisan politics or an attempt to blackmail my government, but I can tell you that my people are already aware.
“That was why the NLC Imo State chapter addressed a World Press Conference that what their National Leadership is doing is not correct and that they are not going to do any strike or protest. And in the process, they decided to dissolve them to put in a caretaker.
“Of course, I’m the chief security officer and I have a responsibility to intervene. What has happened in this ugly coincidence is that the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress is from Imo State and has not been able to demarcate the difference between being a national leader of an organisation and then an interested party in local politics.”
