Crisis rocks Kebbi NLC as Executive Council sacks chairman

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Crisis rocks Kebbi NLC as Executive Council sacks chairman

The Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kebbi State chapter, has removed Comrade Murtala Usman as its chairman.
His ouster was announced at a meeting held by the leadership of the congress at its secretariat on Tuesday in Birnin Kebbi.
Addressing newsmen, the congress’s vice chairman, Comrade Sabitu Lawal said the NLC decided to replace the former chairman with Comrade Umar Halidu Alhassan following the former chairman’s dismissal by his employer, the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) in July last year.

He said, “By this, he was automatically disqualified from being the state chairman of the NLC.”

In his reaction, the Chairman of the National Union of Teachers in Kebbi State, Sanusi Umar, dismissed the action of the leadership of the state congress, insisting that the ‘impeached’ chairman remained the leader of NLC in the state.

“As I speak to you, he is on his way to Abuja to represent the congress at a national assignment,” he said.