A factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has told Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, to stop the deception that he is still a member of the party.
Abure, in a statement on Friday, urged Governor Otti to openly declare his allegiance to the opposition coalition and leave the Labour Party alone.
Abure, who accused the Abia State Governor of anti-party activities, said top members of Governor Otti’s political camp, including the chairman of the caretaker committee, Senator Nenadi Usman, and LP’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have already joined the new coalition, so the Governor is only being deceptive by claiming to still be a part of the Labour Party.
He spoke against the background of the recent clarification by Otti that he remains a member of the Labour Party and has no intention of joining the opposition coalition.
Our attention has been drawn to Otti’s interview where he claimed he is still a member of the Labour Party. We are not going to fall for his deception again.”
“How can he claim to be in the Labour Party when he conducted the last local government election in Abia State using the Zenith Labour Party as his platform? He formed and is funding the illegal caretaker committee that has now formally joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC),” he said.
Abure claimed in the statement that Otti has already been suspended from the Labour Party.
We are shocked that Otti is paradoxically trying to mislead Labour Party members by claiming continued membership. In any event, he was indefinitely suspended from the party due to his anti-party activities,” Abure added.
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