By Victor Ahiuma-Young

Delta State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Williams Akporeha, has petitioned the state governor, accusing a former adviser on Labour Matters to the governor of activities capable of breaching industrial peace in the state.

In the petition, Akporeha called on the state government to call the former adviser to order before the state is engulfed in industrial crisis, alleging that the activities of the former adviser on labour matters were already causing industrial tension in the state.

He said: “It is true that the leadership of the NLC at the national level is in two factions following the inappropriate conduct of the national delegates’ congress which has also affected the state congresses. However, while concerted efforts are being made to restore a united NLC at the national level, the former adviser in his desperation has continued to deepen the crisis in Delta State by his unrelenting divisive and malicious sectionalism in favour of the other faction of NLC  for his personal gains to the detriment of industrial peace in the state.

“Logistics support provided by the state government to facilitate the 2015 May Day activities and to facilitate state NLC leadership attendance of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, Convention in Geneva, Switzerland were all confiscated by him and shared to the other NLC faction thereby depriving labour and other affiliate industrial unions in Delta State under my leadership from benefitting even though I was the one that formally applied.”