The Chairman of the Labour Party National Transition Committee (LP-NTC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, has thrown his weight behind the proposed September 4 stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahi, Abia State, and said it will bring lasting peace and progress in the party.
The meeting which was convened by Governor Alex Otti, is being opposed by the faction of the party led by Julius Abure.
But Omar expressed the hope that the outcome of the Umuahia meeting will open a new chapter of progress that will bring back those who left the party in protest of Abure’s style of leadership.
He disclosed that the meeting is part of the promise the National Leader of the party, Mr Peter Obi made to Nigerians when he met with the LPNTC on July 25 and 30.
The former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is optimistic that the meeting will reflect on “good governance, rule of law and true democracy through commitment to the principles of integrity, justice and corruption-free leadership.”
According to him, Abure’s leadership “is irreconcilably opposed to the ideals which Peter Obi and Alex Otti stand for.”
Omar stated that no former leader in Nigeria has inspired confidence in the people like Obi, who he said, has conquered the imagination of millions of Nigerians, the entire Africa’s socio-political audience and the international community.
He quoted an unnamed platform that described Obi as “not only a threat to Nigeria’s looters but to their accomplices overseas in Europe and America.”
The Abia governor, he added, has with less than two years in office, recorded huge infrastructure revolution in the state, despite low revenue.
“NTC is proud to observe that Otti achieved this epic feat for Abia State in just 13 months after 24 years of ruthless corruption and graft under PDP’s state capture since 1999,” he stated.