The Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has constituted a mobilisation committee for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
The committee which is headed by Comrade Charles Onyeagba , a former NLC Chairman in the state, has other members who include , Jerry Nnubia (Deputy Chairman) Odiegwu Anthony (Secretary), Chukwuka Gaius (Assistant Secretary), Maduabum Patricia (Treasurer), Nweke Ifeanyi (Public Relations Officer/Organising Secretary), Ubani ABC, Odili Chike, Cele-Okeafor Ngozi, Uyanwunne Eucharia, Ikeazor Charles, and Onyejiaka Emmanuel.
While inaugurating the committee, Chinwe Orizu, the NLC Chairman in the state, said the political committee was being constituted based on an instruction from the national leadership of the body.
She said, “We are not talking of political parties now. This is a workers’ movement. We call it the workers’ movement because the workers want to take over the political power of this country.
“We no longer want to sit on the fence. That is why the 2023 project is called the workers’ movement. Every worker in Nigeria should be involved. We need to educate our workers. NLC sees it as a duty that, in the LP, our dream will be fulfilled by you and me that are oppressed as workers in Nigeria.
“Workers of this country have been so much oppressed. The money they give us as take-home does not take us home again. We are just suffering, and the suffering is not ending. Let us have it at the back of our mind that this is holy anger.
“We should rise in holy anger to defend this moment that is called workers’ movement. We have a