…As destiny of congresses, conference hangs within the stability
By John Alechenu
Abuja – Labour Social gathering’s Interim Nationwide Committee (INC) underneath the management of Senators Nenadi Usman and Darlington Nwochocha, has sounded the alarm over an alleged try by supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to take over its construction.
The social gathering’s Interim Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Mr. Toni Akeni, made the declare in a leaked memo, expressing frustration with the present state of the social gathering and threatening to stop if issues don’t enhance.
Particularly, Akeni alleged that an unnamed APC “mole” inside LP’s ranks had satisfied the INC to not fund the social gathering’s publicity directorate.
The social gathering’s spokesperson equally expressed frustrations that the social gathering’s interim management has did not conduct ward, Native Authorities, State and Zonal congresses in addition to a nationwide conference, a couple of yr after it was given a 90-day mandate to take action.
The inner memo dated October ninth, 2025, titled: “Pre-resignation Memo”, was addressed to the social gathering’s Nationwide Govt Council (NEC) and the social gathering’s Board of Trustees (BoT), learn partly:
“Expensive Council & Trustees,
Protest Towards Working Situations As Social gathering’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Derailment of Labour Social gathering Congresses and Nationwide Conference Actions Timeline.
“In view of the truth that chances are you’ll be time-pressed and unable to instantly learn by this full doc, I present beneath to your on the spot consideration a compressed model of the doc.
“The project given to the iNWC of our social gathering to conduct nationwide state congresses and all-inclusive nationwide conference commenced after its inauguration at Umuahia on September 4, 2024.
“Lower than two years to the 2027 basic elections, as a substitute of the three months (90 days) unique time-frame given to the working committee, the train has now spanned 445 days, a number of months greater than a full yr.
“But membership registration and revalidation, that are obligatory antes to the congresses and conference, usually are not near graduation, a lot much less conclusion within the foreseeable time.
“Because the interim Nationwide Publicity Secretary (iNPS) of Labour Social gathering, I used to be compelled to relocate to Abuja from my Edo state household abode and abode of occupational livelihood on August 7, 2025.
“ I’ve since then been finishing up all assignments of the workplace from lodge lodging and not using a penny from the Labour Social gathering or its stakeholders besides a single #10,000 token for knowledge shared to me by Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku on September 27, 2025.
“The zero price range assertion and insistence of an unnamed iNWC member pertaining to the workplace of the Nationwide Publicity Secretary raises very disturbing questions and implications towards my continued and efficient functioning of the duties, duties and expectations of the workplace. These embrace the next:
“The Nigerian press whom I’ve been pleading with to bear with me for months following assurances by the NWC {that a} correct price range for the media was underway will probably be compelled to imagine that I’ve been mendacity to them on a regular basis and look at me as a liar who can’t be trusted.
“That might consequently go away me within the lurch and make me seem incapable of the workplace thrust on me.
“The fund-yourself social gathering coverage asserted by the unnamed official provides rise to a number of aching questions:
“Which political social gathering’s nationwide picture maker and publicity mouthpiece within the historical past of Nigeria funded their social gathering’s nationwide publicity duties solely from their non-public earnings, particularly an opposition political social gathering striving to take out and substitute a huge, incumbent octopus dictatorship just like the one presently in Nigeria?
“Assuming that Nigeria’s capital metropolis have been Maiduguri, from our Nationwide Chairman to the least member of the NWC as composed, which official would relocate to Maiduguri, pay his flights, complete lodging, each day maintenance, assembly attendances and multi-faceted media conferences/publicity payments for even only one month, and settle for that she or he is working for a accountable political social gathering and trigger?
“As I noticed to the interim Nationwide Chairman Sen. Nenadi Usman in one in every of my a number of reminders to her on the subject material on September 14, 2025, even menial wheelbarrow pushers are paid for his or her labour.
“How far more the cream of Nigeria capital’s elite media corps and social media networks who’re giving voice, citizens consciousness and rebound to our social gathering after its locust years underneath its previous Supreme Court docket sacked management?
“In view of the above, one is compelled to agree with majority NWC members that whoever made the assertion that the Nationwide Publicity Secretary ought to single-handedly bear the broad funding burdens of the nationwide media wants of a contemporary political social gathering which is about to enter nationwide state congresses and nationwide conference doesn’t imply nicely for the social gathering.
“Such a person ought to be marked by one and all as a saboteur searching for to silence the voice of the Labour Social gathering nationwide by implementing a coverage that’s tantamount to our social gathering’s loss of life sentence by silence and obliteration from public view and limelight, particularly at a time the social gathering is pathetically labouring to undertake lengthy promised, ceaselessly deferred congresses and nationwide conference.
“I subsequently agree with social gathering stakeholders and functionaries who maintain the view that such particular person or individuals are proxy brokers of exterior rival events planted to scale back and convey the Labour Social gathering to its knees and minimal particles earlier than decamping to the glittering nightclub lights of the ADC or APC, therefore they don’t care burning down the progress of our social gathering earlier than their exit.
“Such particular person owes Labour Social gathering faithfuls all through Nigeria an reason why the long-promised state congresses and nationwide conference of our social gathering continues to be removed from graduation after 445 days as a substitute of 90 days.
“Such particular person must also clarify to Labour Social gathering members nationwide why despite coronary heart rending misery lamentations from our state chapters the Sen. Nenadi Usman council of our Labour Social gathering, despite our social gathering’s formidable institutional pedigree and a number of judgment credentials, continues to be not acknowledged by INEC and uploaded on the fee’s portals months after the brand new ADC coalition had achieved the identical with out a lot ado…
“ A state of affairs which has resulted in huge each day lack of members to different political events in each state of the federation until date.
“Such Trojan agent must also clarify to Labour Social gathering members nationwide why the brand new ADC coalition social gathering is comprehensively acknowledged by INEC for all elections months again as much as 2027 and past and Labour Social gathering just isn’t?
“Expensive NEC and iNWC leaders and functionaries, I urge you to have solemn reflections of the issues expressed above and pray God to provide the knowledge and braveness to behave decisively earlier than exterior forces smash our social gathering’s standing once more in 2027 by inside forces akin to the 2023 election epoch.”
When contacted, Akeni neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the doc.
A senior social gathering official who spoke in confidence for worry of retribution clarified that the funding problem hindered the social gathering’s means to promote for type purchases and congress modalities forward of the nationwide conference for electing new officers.
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