It’s insulting to say Labour party is dictating to NLC—Joe Ajaero

President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has condemned claims that Labour Party (LP) is sponsoring the union to embark on industrial action over the fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu.

Ajaero who spoke on a national television programme, yesterday, said it was the NLC that formed LP and that if anyone should dictate in the relationship, it should be the union.

This is as he said the candidate of LP would have faced same opposition from the NLC if he had unilaterally opted to deregulate and end the fuel subsidy regime.

“We determine what happens in Labour Party. Who is Labour Party and its candidate that will be telling us what to do? What we are doing now, has it not been consistent with what has been done on the issue of fuel subsidy from the past. Even when the Labour Party presidential candidate was talking about fuel subsidy removal, although the mode maybe different, we said if you do it, you will hear from us.”