Ayuba Wabba | |
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National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress | |
In office February 2015 –February 2023 | |
Preceded by | Abdulwaheed Omar |
Succeeded by | Joe Ajaero |
President International Trade Union Confederation | |
In office 2018–2022 | |
Preceded by | João Antonio Felicio |
Succeeded by | Akiko Gono |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 October 1968 |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Education | Masters Degree |
Alma mater | Imo State University |
Occupation | Activism |
Ayuba Philibus Wabba (born 22 October 1968) is a Nigerian trade union leader who served as the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress from 2015 to 2023. [1] In 2018,he was elected president of International Trade Union Confederation,a position he held till 2022. [2]
Born in Borno State,Wabba attended school in Kawo,and then various institutions including the Imo State University. During this period,he served as president of the National Union of Health Technology Students. [3] [4]
After leaving education,Wabba began working for the Medical and Health Workers' Union of Nigeria,becoming first its secretary in Borno State,then as the union's national president. In 2007,he was elected as national treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress,then in 2015 became its president. [3] [4] In 2018,he was elected as president of the International Trade Union Confederation. [5] Wabba is an opponent of proposed Nigerian participation in the African Continental Free Trade Area. [6]
Wabba is also the Fiwagboye of Orile-Ifo and the Zanna Ma'alama of Borno Emirate. [3] [4] In one of his recent struggles with the government,the governor of Kaduna State declared him wanted with other NLC officials for alleged economic sabotage and attack on public infrastructure in the state. [7] The NLC president responded by saying he is waiting to be arrested by the government and that the five days strike was not about him but about the welfare of the workers in Kaduna State. [8] Workers from different minsteries and cadres of the civil service joined in the protest withdrawing their services for the five days due to shortage of civil servants in the public service in the state after some of them were sacked by the state government.
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