LABOUR PARTY Won’t Rest Until We Take Over Govt – Nat’l Chairman Vows
The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has vowed not to give up until the party takes over power in Nigeria and provide quality leadership.
Abure said this while addressing newsmen in Umuahia, Abia State, following a meeting with Governor Alex Otti and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the LP
He said, “We will not rest until we are able to take over government and provide the people quality leadership that will work for the country.
“How do you reconcile a situation where we export crude oil only to import refined products at high costs. Nigeria’s problem is bad leadership, and once we get it right, every other thing will be fixed.
“Today, you can see that Nigeria is not moving as it should. A bag of rice sells for N120, 000 while minimum wage is N30,000. A tuber of yam that previously sold for N500 is now N1200.
“Life has become very difficult in Nigeria; security challenges are enormous; inflation is very high; unemployment is increasing, and people now find it increasingly difficult to feed. This is the reality in Nigeria today under [the] APC Government.
“We will provide a leadership that will fight poverty and fight hunger; a leadership that will empathize with the people and liberate them.”
Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said Nigeria should break up if the path would solve the challenges facing the country.
Soyinka said this on Thursday at The
PUNCH Newspapers’ 50th-anniversary lecture held in Lagos State. Delivering his lecture titled ‘Recovering the Narrative’, Soyinka said Nigeria should decentralise for Nigerians to enjoy the country more.
The lecture, which was delivered by Soyinka, is part of the weeklong activities marking the 50th anniversary of PUNCH.
Soyinka opined that decentralisation would allow governance to get closer to the people, adding that it was high time leaders stopped taking Nigerians for a ride
He said, ‘I know the fear. The fear is collapse, break up. That’s been the excuse given by several regimes. But suppose the nation is breaking up informally, in other words as a fact rather than as a theory.
“Then, and you better just address this. Come straight on and see exactly what happened. What is wrong with general representatives seeing them and saying
this is the protocol of our association, Anything outside of it? Anyone who does not want to accept these protocols, abide by these protocols and manifest these protocols in the act should take a walk. I have no problem at all.
“We live in what is known as the nation
beginning as a vast football field is ending up as a ping pong table. If that is going to restore dignity to citizens. If that is going to guarantee three square meals
a day then so be it. One of my favourite
expressions with people is “Let nations die, that humanity may live.”
