The Nigeria Labour Congress
(NLC), has warned President Mohammadu Buhari to be wary of sycophants asking
him to contest 2019 election because of his performance.
Speaking on behalf of the
National Executive Council of the NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu, said the recent
moves by some stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who reportedly
hailed as excellent the performance of the president and asked him to contest
again in 2019, was an invitation to disaster.
Speaking at the delegate
conference of women wing of the National Union of Textile, Garment and
Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) in Ilorin on Thursday, the labour leader
described the invitation as ‘pure sycophancy.’
The labour leader said, “although
the president might have recorded some achievements in office, but he still had
a lot to be met on his campaign promises and that there were many challenges
confronting the nation which his administration was expected to surmount.
“While the president’s semi
narration might have suppressed the Boko Haram insurgency, the security
challenges still remained threatening with a high rate of kidnapping, armed
robbery and ritual killings.”
He said that the nation’s economy
was worsening, regretting that Buhari had failed to revive the textile sector
after allegedly promised to do so before he became the president.
He said, “If the oil refineries
had been refurbished and textile factories revived the economy would have
improved and there would have been more job opportunities.”
The NLC leader said that the
corruption allegations about the former Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, David Babachir, former Director-General of the National Intelligent
Agency, Ayodele Oke and former chairman of Pension Taskforce, Abdulrasheed
Maina showed that Buhari still had a long way to go to be successful in his
anti-corruption campaigns.
He said it was shocking that
Maina found his way back to service after absconding for about three years and
declared wanted over fraud in pension fund of which he has not been cleared.
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