INDICATIONS have emerged that jamboree trips by the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and infighting within the National Administrative Council, NAC, are tearing the NLC apart.

It was gathered that none of the NLC’s three deputy presidents attended the last two National Administrative Council, NAC, and National Executive Council, NEC, meetings in what an insider claimed was part of the protests against the leadership style of the president.

It was alleged that a three-man clique has taken over the leadership of NLC for personal aggrandizement.

Just last week, when five officials of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Employees, NUBIFIE, were languishing in Ikoyi prisons, following their arrest by Police over a petition by the Diamond Bank in connection with the  July 10, picketing of the bank, the President of NLC, the acting General Secretary and three other members of NAC were in United States of America attending the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations, AFLCIO, delegates conference.

There was no acting President, while the accountant was made an acting General Secretary of congress. The statement issued over the arrest and detention of the NUBIFIE officials confirmed this development.

According to sources, the sad thing was not that AFLCIO had never attended NLC conference, NLC was said to have written to the American organisation to increase its number of participants to the conference.

On the increasing infighting in NLC, the source said: “The dilemma in NLC is such that you have a group of leaders that are not strong, leaders who have lost their union positions. As you already know that you cannot serve as a leader in the NLC if you are not a union leader. Most NAC members in the NLC, their tenure as leaders in their respective unions have either expired or they are postponing delegates conference to remain in the Congress.”