Workers advised to float own political party

By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan

Campaign for Democratic and workers’ Rights (CDWR) and Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) yesterday advised Nigerian workers, students and other oppressed strata of the society to float “independent alternative political platform”.
CDWR and SPN gave the advice in a statement issued in Ibadan on this year’s May Day celebration signed by its Oyo state Coordinator, Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye.
According to the group, it is now glaring that all the existing political parties in the country are anti workers considering their policies which demands the coming together of the entire oppressed strata in the country to liberate their selves from the hands of the political class.

“Given the enormous pains and pang that Nigeria working people are made to suffer since the inception of civil rule in 1999 owing to the prolificacy and financial recklessness among members of Nigeria elites regardless of their affiliation to various bourgeois political parties (APC, SDP, ACORD, APGA, LP, PDP etc), it’s  high time workers, students and other oppressed strata of the society realised that except the working people form its own  independent alternative political platform as a step to take over political power, the working people will continue to be tools of exploitation in the hand of the ruling capitalist elite,” it said.
CDWR and SPN, however, kicked against the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed by the labour union leaders in Oyo state on the non-payment of backlog of salaries and pensions owed workers in the state, saying “this MoU which was signed by the labour leaders without recourse to the congress of public workers in the state is divisive, deceitful.”