Ajaero Succeeds Wabba As NLC President

Joe Ajaero has been elected as the new National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).

Ajaero, who was elected at the delegate conference attended by 3,000 members was until today the deputy national president of the labour union.

He was elected unopposed succeeding Ayuba Wabba who served for eight straight years of four years of two terms from 2015 to 2023

Until his emergence, Ajaerobwas also the general secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees, emerged as the NLC national president at the 13th National Delegates’ Conference of the labour union in Abuja.

The conference, which began on Tuesday, February 7, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, ends on Wednesday with the election of new national officers for a four-year period.

National Vice President (South-East), Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), Prince Emeka Kalu, said it would be the first time a President of the Nigeria Labour Congress would be elected as a consensus candidate

Ajaero was born on December 17, 1964, in Emekuku Owerri-North, Imo State. Ajaero has been the NLC deputy president since 2011. He has been the general secretary of the NUEE since 2005. He 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.