The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has warned President Muhammadu
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.