The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has elected Joe Ajaero as its national president.
Ajaero, who was the deputy national president of the labour union, was elected its president unopposed on Wednesday at the 13th National Delegates’ Conference of the labour union ongoing in Abuja.
He was also the general secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees.
Ajaero, who was born on December 17, 1964, in Emekuku Owerri-North, Imo State, has been the NLC deputy president since 2011 and has been the general secretary of the NUEE since 2005.
The conference, which began on Tuesday, February 7, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, and is expected to end on Wednesday with the election of new national officers for a four-year period, The Punch reported.
Ajaero succeeds Ayuba Wabba, whose tenure as NLC national president ends Wednesday
One of the delegates, Prince Emeka Kalu, National Vice President (South-East), Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers’ Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), who spoke to News Express, said, “History is already being made here. This is the first time a President of the Nigeria Labour Congress will be elected as a consensus candidate.”
Ajaero was Research Officer One Mechanised Infantry Division Nigerian Army Kaduna between 1990 and 1991 (NYSC); Reporter/Correspondent and Assistant News Editor at Vanguard Newspapers 1992 – 2001; and Head of Training/Information, NUEE 2001 – 2005.
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