The President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero on Friday gave an account of how he was brutalized in Imo State, saying police operatives handed him over to some suspected thugs for beating.

The NLC president narrated his traumatic experience at a world press conference in Abuja.

The development is coming barely 24 hours before the governorship election in Imo State.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, Ajaero who wore a dark shade to cover his swollen eyes, lamented that the kind of beating he received after security agents handed him over to the thugs was better imagined than explained.

This was even as he claimed the NLC wrote to intimate all the security agencies about the protest before the fateful day.

“I can’t explain the beating I received. They tied my hands and dragged me on the floor like a common criminal. I am not even a card-carrying member of any political party as alleged,” he stated.

His account contradicted an earlier statement by the Imo State Police Command, which said the NLC President was taken into protective custody to save him from a mob attack.

The statement was issued on the official X handle of the Nigerian Police by Imo Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Okoye Henry.

It read, “The Imo State Police Command wishes to clarify some sketchy reports alleging the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero, in Owerri.

"It is pertinent to state that the NLC President was in Owerri as part of arrangements of the Congress to mobilise workers for a mega protest rally in the state. In the course of their planning, it was reported that suggestions arose for the lockdown of some essential facilities particularly the airport which led to some workers and other individuals resisting the picketing process leading to scuffles heated arguments, and an eventual attack on the person of the president by a mob.

"Upon receiving this report, the Imo Police Command swiftly deployed police operatives to the scene where the Officer in Charge exercised his operational discretion by taking the NLC President into protective custody at the State Command Headquarters to ensure the protection of his life and that he was not lynched in the scuffle that followed.

"The Commissioner of Police thereafter directed that he should be taken to the Police Medical Services, Owerri, where he would be accorded medical attention as a result of the attack. He has therefore been accorded adequate security cover to proceed on his other legitimate engagements for the day.”

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Whom do we believe? Allegation and counter allegation.

Wotowoto

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Tomorrow beating will be worse

Afamed:
Tomorrow beating will be worse

We don't do that in Imo,hope will pay for what he did.A whole NLC chairman fighting for workers

You get luck say them nor pluck your left eye comot..declear strike because of the too much harsh condition,you dey form nuisance.. next time na kill them go kill you

Your fellow thugs didn't beat you very well

I don't support brutalisation in any form.NLC
should be fair to uzodinma and his govt.most
of the things they accuse him of is not peculiar to IMO state.In Edo state,the present NLC chairman is a known thug and the leader of PDP in Egor local govt area.

I believe the report of the Nigerian Police,
To be candid I don't think Ajaero was beaten
He was only punched once in the face.

I grew up on the streets, i have been beaten by thugs if thugs beat someone he will have more places in his body to show the impart of thug beating not only a partially swollen eye

Why is that is only Yoruba Muslims that are happy about this beating

IPOB terrorists are very wicked

agulion:
Why is that is only Yoruba Muslims that are happy about this beating

How do you know, are you one of them.

Unexplainable beating

Stop being a goat.

Dey hear words too