The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has rejected the 29-man reconciliation panel set up by the Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, to resolve the lingering leadership crisis in the party.
Abure, in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh, described the stakeholders’ meeting convened by Otti as a “charade” and a “waste of time and resources of Abia people”.
Ifoh said, “The so-called meeting in Umuahia is a charade, a waste of time and resources of Abia People. As clearly stated in our previous statement, the Governor of Abia State, Dr Alex Otti, and others who converged on Umuahia have no power within the party’s constitution, the Electoral Act and even within the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to convene any meeting of the party.”
He added, “The premise on which Governor Alex Otti called the meeting is not only faulty but mischievous. The government business is not transacted verbally but through official communication and correspondences which are done in writing. As we speak, there is no communication whatsoever from INEC to the Party as regards any objection to the conduct of the National Convention.”
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Ifoh also challenged Otti to produce the official letter addressed to him from INEC on the subject matter, saying, “There is no vacuum in the leadership of the party. Consequently, the so-called caretaker committee set up by the governor of Abia State is not known to the constitution of the party and can best be described as a department in the Abia State Government House.”
He further stated, “We are shocked to note that the so-called chairman of the caretaker committee is not a registered member of the party. She surfaced during the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign to assist Peter Obi in his campaign.”
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