Recent conference decisions on state creation, scrapping of local governments and state police are ill-informed, a member of the conference, Comrade Isa Aremu, said yesterday.

Aremu, who is also Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), warned the conference leadership not to rubbish the successes recorded so far by "allowing fatigue to set in".

The labour leader, who spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, during the state congress of Labour Party, however, noted that some of the recommendations at the confab, if well implemented, would deepen the nation's democracy.

He said: "However in recent weeks, it seems fatigue has set in. The leadership of the conference must avoid conference fatigue and ensure total success. The leadership must allow for all inclusive debates and discussions. The conference leadership must not use the excuse of time to exclude many delegates to contribute and participate. Recent conference decisions on states creation, state police and putting local governments under the heels of the states are ill informed. Indeed, some of these decisions do not benefit from sufficient debates and discussions and they must be reopened as the conference resumes on Monday".

Aremu further stated that some of the recommendations of the Committee of Political Parties and Electoral Matters, if implemented, will qualitatively strengthen the political parties especially by stopping cross-carpeting of politicians.

"The committee also observed that our political parties lack ideologies unlike during the second republic where we knew what the parties stood for. Today, our politicians stand for nothing and easily fall for anything. Indeed we have turned political parties to some cheap political ladders which professional politicians use and dump to get power for selfish interests. Again, it is refreshing to see that Labour Party has long passed the ideology test", he said.