NLC President’s brutalization: My government is being blackmailed- Uzodinma

Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma has said that some people and organisations are currently attempting to blackmail his administration in advance of the state’s governorship election on November 11.

In advance of the next elections, President Bola Tinubu gave flags to the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidates in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi. The governor made these comments on Thursday in the Presidential Villa.

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Uzodinma was responding to the demonstration that the Nigeria Labour Congress, or NLC, organised in Owerri on Wednesday and that resulted in the abuse of Joe Ajaero, the union president.

Ajaero had said that after some miscreants had taken over the protest, security personnel had mistreated him. The employees were demonstrating against underpaid wages.

Speaking on the subject, Uzodinma maintained that there are no unpaid pay owed to the state employees.

Speaking about Joe Ajaero’s predicament, Uzodinma said that Ajaero has had difficulty keeping his positions as the labour union’s national president and interested party in Imo State politics separate.

“From January 2020 onwards, we have never missed a salary payment month,” he declared. Prior to this, I believed that a work union was a democratic organisation that welcomed individual opinions. Only Imo State civil servants are paid by me; federal civil servants are not.

“I dare any civil servant serving in Imo State to stand up and claim that they haven’t received their wage since January 15, 2020.

Imo State is home to the president of the NLC. He has failed to distinguish between his role as an organization’s leader and his involvement in local politics.

“I want everyone to exercise extreme caution as there is an attempt to sabotage my government and mix up partisan politics.”