The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC on Friday warned President Goodluck Jonathan against taking advice that could be detrimental to his administration.

They decide who does what and horse-trade amongst themselves within each party to decide who becomes what and alienate the ordinary Nigerians, denying them of the chance to choose the type of people they want as their leaders. I think that we should address the kind of democratic practice within the political parties and nominations for office because when people are nominated, Nigerians will lose the chance of choosing the people they want.

Today, Nigeria is marking 11 years of new and uninterrupted democracy.
It is a journey that began when the table turned on the then military head of state, general Sani Abacha who died suddenly in office and created room for the emergence of a transitional head of state, general Abdulsalami Abubakar whose hurried transition to democratic rule saw the emergence of a former military head of state general Olusegun Obasanjo as civilian President.

The truth is that no nation worth its salt would stand idly and watch as a group or groups of people under whatever guise, plunder, ruin, destroy and kill its sources of survival or threaten to bring it down simply because they were agitating against marginalization or because they feel they must take what rightly belongs to them by force.

Rev. Innocent Peace, president of Rhema Productions, while making this disclosure to HVP , last week, said over 10,000 youths entered for the competition, which will be flagged off at the Eko Hotel in Lagos.