Imo University Students Embarrass Governor Uzodinma During Visit, Chant ‘No Light’ After Workers Went On Strike Over Assault On NLC President, Ajaero
In keeping with movies got by SaharaReporters on Tuesday, the students refused to grant viewers to the governor after the electricity workers reduce off the energy provide to the institution for four days.
Students of the Imo Bid University (IMSU) on Monday booed Governor Hope Uzodinma when he visited the institution for his campaign, as they persevered chanting “no gentle, no gentle” because the governor mounted the rostrum.
In keeping with movies got by SaharaReporters on Tuesday, the students refused to grant viewers to the governor after the electricity workers reduce off the energy provide to the institution for four days.
“Uzodinma went to the Imo Bid University to keep up a correspondence to the students and campaign. After mounting the rostrum, we started shouting ‘no gentle”, because now we own no longer had gentle for the past 4 to 5 days,” a pupil narrated.
“It is because electricity workers went on strike over the assault on NLC president, Joe Ajaero,” one other pupil stated.
The narrate shall be electing its subsequent governor on Saturday in a contest which is already generating controversies on account of the activities of the police, other security operatives and the Neutral Nationwide Electoral Commission (INEC.)
SaharaReporters had on November 2 reported that Uzodinma explained that the causes slack the attack on national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero within the narrate was because he meddled in partisan politics.
SaharaReporters reported closing Wednesday that operatives of the Nigerian Police Force arrested Ajaero while organising a rally to voice against stalled wage funds for workers within the narrate.
It was also reported that the NLC confirmed its President, Comrade Ajaero was totally brutalised and rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri with his correct understanding totally shut.
The NLC’s Head of Info and Publicity, Comrade Benson Upah, had described the arrest and assault suffered by Ajaero as “attempted homicide”.
Nonetheless reacting to the incident, Governor Uzodinma, who’s facing a reelection on November 11, had claimed that the NLC President was attacked because he was meddling within the narrate’s politics.
Uzodimma who spoke to journalists after receiving the All Progressives Congress’ flag from President Bola Tinubu on the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, stated he stopped the NLC’s national management from dissolving the Imo Bid chapter of the Congress.
“What has took situation in this horrible twist of fate is that the Nationwide President of the Nigeria Labour Congress is from Imo Bid and has no longer been in a dwelling to demarcate the variation between being a national leader of an organisation and then an concerned event in local politics,” he stated.
He had stated, “I realize the sensitivity of this event (voice). Nonetheless I need you folks to observe out because there would possibly be an strive to mix up partisan politics or an strive to blackmail my authorities.
“I will uncover you that my folks are already conscious; that was why the NLC Imo Bid chapter addressed a world press convention that what their national management is doing is no longer correct and that they’re no longer going to embark on any strike or voice.
“Within the formulation, they decided to dissolve them to set apart in a caretaker. Clearly, I’m the Chief Security Officer and I truly own a accountability to intervene. I support the national management no longer to dissolve a administration crew that their tenure has no longer expired, and that was what they did.”
