For anti-party activity, the Labour Party (LP) leadership has suspended the national legal adviser, the women’s leader, and eleven chairpersons.
The suspended party executives attended a factional National Executive Council meeting that was conducted in Bauchi State, according to Comrade Bello Adebayo, the chairman of the LP in Osun State who made the announcement.
Adebayo argued that the party could not ignore the fact that some party members have been attempting to utilize the national crisis to sow discord and division inside the Osun State Chapter of the Labour Party.
A serious petition that the party and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, brought before the Presidential Election Tribunal was scuttled, he continued, by those who were sponsoring those who were generating strife inside the party.
In order to forward their nefarious purpose of thwarting the legal fight to retrieve the mandate of Obi and Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed in the 2023 presidential election, he claimed they intend to establish alternative institutions at the national level and the states.
He said, “Among those identified and affected by this decision are; Barr. Samuel Akingbade (National Legal Adviser), Mrs Susan Ojo (State Women Leader) and 11 chairmen of Local Government of our party in Osun State who participated in a meeting organized by the National Legal Adviser and suspended State Woman Leader are hereby suspended from the party indefinitely.
These members stand suspended for anti-party activities and gross misconduct.
This decision will be forwarded to the National Working Committee of the Labour Party and other relevant bodies, including all security agencies, for further actions.”