The National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has named Joe Ajaero as its new president.
Ajaero, who was deputy president of the congress, emerged through a consensus.
He was the sole candidate for the office of the union president and had also served as General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE).
Ajaero succeeded Comrade Ayuba Wabba, whose tenure as NLC President ends on Wednesday.
Born on December 17, 1964, in Emekuku Owerri-North, Imo State, Ajaero has been NLC Deputy President since 2011.
He has been the General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) since 2005.
He was Research Officer One Mechanized 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, National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) 2001 – 2005.
In 2015, Ajaero formed a parallel executive barely a week after an election of the congress produced another candidate who incidentally is his predecessor.
He had during an interview said that he took the decision to reclaim his “stolen mandate.”
