*JAF REMAINS A PRINCIPLED ORGANISATION!
1. *We should recall that as Secretary of JAF, we circulated widely a post on May 20, 2021 tagged "CHATS ON LABOUR AND THE STATE WHATSAPP (reposted below).
*2. Then, ystde May 30, the same person 'hiding' under the pseudonym Mr. Apple @ God's Eye was engaged on the same WhatsApp in another chats with the JAF Deputy Chairperson, reproduced as follows: Achk: We urge JAF affliates and members to join the Day of Action against Insecurity to be held tomorrow Monday May 31, 2021 in Abuja and a number of states nationally. Take off points are Abuja - Unity Fountain; Lagos - Ikeja UnderBridge; Oyo - NULGE Event Centre Dugbe-Onireke Road Ibadan and Osun - Freedom Park Osogbo. Time 8am
Is JAF just waking up from sleep. JAF and the CSO brought us to where we find our self as a country. Where are the occupy Nigerians. Who said fuel price will be 80naira and the dollar 💵 80- 100 with this administration. What is the security situation today. Is 6years now. Where’s the fuel price and dollar today. Where’s is our economy today. It is written faith without work is death.
I do not know who this is. Let's know your name so we can engage properly. JAF did not bring anybody to where we are. Nigerians brought themselves to this place. In 2011, JAF issued a.public statement to the effect that a Jonathan presidency will not resolve the problem of misgovernance in the country. In 2015, JAF issued a public statement warning about the dangers of a Buhari presidency. The argument was that there was a deep systemic dysfunction within the Nigerian state that would have to be overthrown in other to move the country in the right direction. At no time has JAF ever supported any government from 1999 till date. I can ask the JAF Secretary to post our position statements on all occasions of change of governments on this platform."
3. *@Mr. Apple of God's eye, u need not hide your real identity, becos as someone, being a student of Malcolm X and who drinks from the fountain of his wisdoms, one can always uncover the 'hidden elements' and u ve bn uncovered! - "in the bush are hunters hunting the animals but there are also the forces who hunt the hunters" - Malcolm X
4. AS JAF, WE INVITE U TO DISCLOSE YOUR IDENTITY BEFORE WE DISCLOSE U, STATE WHAT YOUR ISSUES ARE AND STOP FRONTING FOR OTHERS! AND WE WILL ENGAGE YOU BASED ON PRINCIPLES!
Cde-Aremu
JAF Sec
*NB: as reposted!*
*CHATS ON 'LABOUR AND THE STATE WHATSAPP!*
JAF and some CSO should hid there face in shame. They are the reason the Nigerian masses are suffering. They can not play a saint in current situation Nigerian workers find themselves. Our help is in God.
Aby: *@ Mr. Apple of God's eye: I can speak for JAF but wouldn't know d organisations that qualified as d CSO u mentioned! We are JAF and our faces are not hidden. Our humble interventions on d side of the working people and d poor massesfor the past two decades bear testimonies to what we stand for! We don't struggle for d workers/people bcos we are not storm troopers or hired mercenaries of d workers/ people. Instead, we struggle with d workers/people because their class interest is our class interest, their cause is our cause and their aspirations are also ours! When we struggle with the workers/ people, we do not do so because of d individuals or their leaders, we struggle based on the necessity to struggle and class solidarity! Therefore, whatever we do with d class of workers/ oppressed masses, is a DUTY we owe to our class interest and we will always live up to it, bearing in mind that we also as an organisation and as individuals in the organisations, we have limitations, which we must admit, identify and overcome, in order for FORWARD MOVEMENT! If in your wisdom, u alleged or condemned as JAF as being "the reason the Nigerian masses are suffering", we want to humbly ask you to speak elaborately to it so that we can learn lessons on what u "judged" JAF has done to wrong the people! And if u ve followed JAF and check our antecedents, we have always made our identity very clear as a pro-Labour coalition and not just any egbekegbe CSOs (salute to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Abami Eda for his song - United Nations egbekegbe)! And for some us, we don't and can't run away from any struggle where the class interest of the workers and oppressed poor masses are at stake! As a learning student of ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, I remain inspired by one of his numerous thoughts - "A BATTLE MAY BE WON OR LOST, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT THE BATTLE MUST BE FOUGHT!*
*Comrade Abiodun Aremu, JAF Secretary*
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