Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, Peter Obi has faulted Wednesday’s attack on the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero.
He said the beating of Ajaero during the NLC’s rally in Owerri, Imo State, shows a level of lawlessness, impunity, criminality, and rascality that should concern everyone.
Hoodlums suspected to have been hired by the Imo state government and in cahoots with police in the state descended on the NLC President, who led other members of the Central Working Committee (CWC) to a protest in Imo State over the alleged unfriendly treatment of workers in the state.
Reacting, Obi said, “What happened to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero, in Imo State, yesterday has come as a rude shock to most Nigerians.
“It says a lot about the state of affairs in our country today.
“It shows the level of lawlessness, impunity, criminality, and rascality that have engulfed our dear country.
“Things like this should worry any discerning mind because it runs counter to the type of country that we all desire and deserve.
“In the New Nigeria of our dreams, abuse of power and the reckless violation of citizens’ rights through acts of impunity will have no place.”