Mohammed Shosanya
The Nigerian Labour Congress has threatened to down tools nationwide if the Nigeria Police detains its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero.
The union expressed thus on Tuesday, morning at its headquarters,after members held an emergency National Executive Council meeting to discuss the invitation of the NLC President by the police over allegations of terrorism financing.
The NEC resolved that Ajaero should honour the police invitation. But noted that their legal adviser seek for more time for the NLC President to appear before the police authorities.
Comrade Ado Kabiru Sani,the Deputy President of NLC enjoined the nation’s workforce to remain on stand bye for further directive should the Police act contrary to their expectation of detaining Ajaero.
He said:”As a committed level centre we will honour the invitation of the police because we are not faceless organisation but we are working with our lawyer for extension of time.
“In the event that if the President is arrested all workers will down tools immediately. We should wait for further directive from our leadership”.