The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has said that the Labour Party was established because they wanted a party where the son of a nobody can pick up a nomination form and contest election, yet the leadership of the party is charging N30 million and N10 million for nomination form.
Speaking during an interview with The Sun Newspaper on Tuesday, Ajaero said that is what other political parties are doing, and they didn't think it was the right thing.
He said that the idea behind the creation of the Labour Party started manifesting during the 2023 election when okada rider won election into the National Assembly. He said that such a thing can only happen in Labour Party.
He said, "How can you ask people to pay N30 million or N10 million for nomination in Labour Party? Is that the basis for the creation of the party?
"We said that these conventional parties are not doing well and that we wanted a party where the son of nobody can pick form and contest elections, yet you want to charge them N10 million, N20 million.
"The idea behind the creation of this party has started manifesting by okada riders being in the National Assembly coming out victorious in the last election. It can only happen in the Labour Party."
Speaking about the issue that the NLC had with the Labour Party, Ajaero said that what people were witnessing in the party was a clique of people who had converted the party to a money-making machine and as a mechanism for contestation alone. He said that those people were not interested in building the party.
He added that all over the world, the Labour Party is owned by the trade unions.