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Pro-Buhari youths clash with labour, say NLC silent when B’Haram ravaged N’East

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Breakdown of law and order was averted on Thursday during the protest march by the Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as policemen battled to stop a large number of youths at Area 1 roundabout, Abuja from attacking NLC leaders.

The youths, who queried the response of the NLC to the Boko Haram violent campaign in the North East, came out in large numbers, waving brooms and chanting pro-Buhari slogans.

The chant of Sai Buhari rented the air, preventing the address by labour leaders to the crowd from being audible.

A spokesman of the youths, Abubakar Adamu Guduf explained that they mobilised support for the government of President Muhammadu Buhari because labour was nowhere to speak for them when Boko Haram terrorists were ravaging the North East.

“The reason we are against the NLC is that none of them came out to protest against what Boko Haram was doing under former President Goodluck Jonathan or how government left our people to be killed like fowl. They abandoned us in the North East

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“But now, Buhari is doing well, we now have peace and I can now go to Gwoza, my local government area and they say Buhari is not good”, Guduf said.

Another youth, Abass Gafaru Wisu, also a native of Gwoza, said he would support the president to any length because he lost his parents to Boko Haram attack.

However, factional president of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, has said that the strike will continue, adding that he was not bothered for standing alone in the “struggle”, to the lukewarm attitude of Nigerians to the call.

He said: “This is about policy engagement. This action is to resist a policy that has been imposed on us and we have made the point clearly. The NLC must be seen to be consistent in standing by the truth and by the people to the extent that those policies are not consistent with the ideas of ensuring social justice.

“We will continue to resist the N145 fuel pump which has been imposed on us because this is a further exploitation to the hardship already in the country. Therefore we thought that we should make this position known. We are not worried that we are fighting this battle alone, because historically the NLC has always stood with the people”, Wabba said.

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