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The National President,National Union of Textile,Garment &
Tailoring Workers of Nigeria [NUTGTWN] Comrade John Adaji with the
General -Secretary and Governorship Aspirant under the Labour
Party for Kwara state Comrade Issa Aremu with the former Governor of
Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa during his visit to intimate him on
his intention to run for 2019 Election.PHOTOS:OLU AJAYI.
Both
members of Federal Executive and the Federal legislature must
“embrace statesmanship in place of brinkmanship” as a
precondition for sustainable democratic process in Nigeria. Comrade
Issa Aremu General Secretary Textile Union made this observation at
related but separate events in Kaduna on
Wednesday and Thursday.
At
the unveiling of the 40th Anniversary Logo of Textile Union, the
frontline labour leader said the “addictive conflicts” between
the legislators and the Federal Executive would undermine good
governance and democracy. Comrade Aremu who is a governorship
aspirant in Kwara state said Nigeria’s uninterrupted
democracy in the last 20 years needed quality people who would
stand for fundamental state principles of good governance as
contained in 1999 constitution in place of what he called
“politicians desperate for immediate pursuit of power and money”.
Referring to the drama at the National Assembly following illegal
prevention of some legislators on Tuesday, Comrade Aremu said
the survival of the “smartest politicians” must give way to
the survival of democratic process in Nigeria. He said
democratic forces who fought for democracy must not allow the
democratic process undermined by “selfishness and cheap carpet
crossing”. The labour leader said it was time Nigeria implemented
the resolutions of 2014 conference with reference to code of conduct
for political parties, political party office holders on carpet
crossing. He said section 68 (8) of Constitution (as
amended), be further amended to “indicate that any elected
official, executive or legislative, who carpet-cross, regardless of
the reasons for such, shall automatically forfeit their seat. Such
officials are however, free to contest for the position or
indeed any other position on the basis of their new political party.
Earlier the President of NUTWN, Comrade John Adaji had
disclosed that the 40th anniversary of the Union would hold
from Tuesday 16th to Thursday 18th October 2018. Activities
include Anniversary Rallies, Lectures, Exhibitions, fashion parade
and gala nite/Anniversary Awards in major textile cities of Kano,
Kaduna and Lagos. National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoting
Workers (NUTGWN) is one of the registered twenty-nine industrial
unions, which came into existence after the amalgamation of scores
of house unions in 1978.
Meanwhile
the first democratically elected governor of Kaduna state during the
second Republic, Alhaji Abdulkadr Musa had endorsed Comrade Issa
Aremu for the post of governorship of Kwara state citing his
commitment to struggle for social justice and development in Nigeria.
“I support Comrade Aremu 99 per cent. I would have supported him
100 per cent if he runs on PRP. But Labour Party he chooses is part
of progressive families committed to socialist transformation
of Nigeria” he said while Labour Party aspirant paid him a courtesy
call at his residence in Kaduna. Comrade Aremu disclosed that he was
inspired by the progressive record of Alhaji Balarabe as the first
executive governor of Kaduna state adding that “am an ideological
and political son of Alhaji Balarabe Musa right from my university
days”.
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