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Natives warns NLC against alleged plot to sabotage Tinubu inauguration

By Adamu Abuh, Abuja
22 May 2023   |   10:57 am
Ahead of the May 29 handover date, a pro-democracy group under the aegis of The Natives has warned the Joe Ajaero-led Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to steer clear of any act allegedly aimed at scuttling the inauguration of the President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Natives Supreme Leader, Hon. Smart Edwards in a statement assured that…

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Ahead of the May 29 handover date, a pro-democracy group under the aegis of The Natives has warned the Joe Ajaero-led Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to steer clear of any act allegedly aimed at scuttling the inauguration of the President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The Natives Supreme Leader, Hon. Smart Edwards in a statement assured that they would do all within their powers to ensure Tinubu is inaugurated in grand style.

The position by the Natives is made up of different ethnic groups, cultures, Languages and tribes across Nigeria with over twenty million members nationwide is coming against the backdrop of claims by Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) that it had uncovered plans by the leadership of the NLC to actualise their threat to scuttle Tinubu’s inauguration.

Ajaero had in his May Day speech hit hard on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) accusing it of flawed general elections that produced Bola Tinubu as President-elect.

Edward argued that NLC lacks the moral latitude to speak for all Nigerians since it chose to be partisan in the last general election.

“Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be inaugurated in grand style as the 16th President of Nigeria,” Edwards said.

“The Natives are already rolling out the drums as Nigeria prepares to witness the first opposition leader turned National Leader and elected as the 16th President of Nigeria. A Comrade, a June 12 advocate, a Senator, a Governor, a negotiator of political power with all past and incumbent Presidents in Nigeria, a builder of men, mentor and supporter of the Labour movement.”

The group, however, cautioned those nursing plans to forment trouble before the inauguration, including the NLC to perish such thought.

“We are the Natives of all tribes and languages. We are the real voters and we can’t wait for Tinubuto be inaugurated as the next President of this country.

“So, we advise all and sundry to perish the thought of protests or scuttling the inauguration but galvanize their members and supporters to join in the progress ahead of us all.

“Asiwaju will be different and all he needs is our collaboration and Labour has a major role to play in this.”

While commending the government of United States of America on the recent phone conversation with the President-elect, The Natives said such is a genuine leap in the right direction.

He said: “Nigerians have moved on from the deceptive and self centered negotiations of NLC. We all believed in the Labour union in the past, their tactics and even their combative actions but today it has led itself into a quagmire albeit politically expedient.

“2023 election chronicles their decline from speaking for all, the helpless, poor and disenfranchised citizens, to becoming representatives of politicians and saboteurs themselves.

“In the last general election, NLC’s foray into politics and its mode of choice of candidates threw the gates open to all manner of unknown and unpredictable people, it left the shores of tested comrades to uncharted depths.

“NLC’s inability to mitigate influx of mixed multitudes into their midst means it is likely to imbibe the culture of politicians with the same outcome from political actors by their choices, which they easily condemned in the past. This is even evident in the current squabbles it is awashed with, given the accusations and counter accusations that lead to the despicable act of its political actors at the Presidential Tribunal.”

Edward added that for NLC to reclaim its disappearing image and confidence, “it must take some courage to reset, rethink and restore the hopes of the common man which was historically vested in the Labuor movement to which we all participated as students, youth activists and civil society etc.”

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