Biola Azeez
Local government chairmen of the Labour Party in Kwara state among other stakeholders of the party have dissolved the state executive council of the party for alleged
contempt and insubordination against the party’s governorship candidate.
The people, who described the reported suspension of the party’s governorship candidate, Comrade Basambo Abubakar, by the state exco of the party for the Saturday elections as null and void, asked members of the general public to disregard the purported suspension.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, the Baruten local government chairman of the party, Comrade Mohammed Baba, who is also the chairman of all the 16 local government chairmen of the party in the state, said that the party’s constitution does not give either the state party chairman and/or secretary any authority to unilaterally expel members.
In the speech read by the Ilorin East local government chairman of the party, Barrister Wahab Issa, on behalf of Comrade Baba, the local government chairmen, said that they would no longer
recognize members of the state executive council of the Labour Party in the state.
“That from today, 14th March 2023, we, as stakeholders of the Labour Party, cease to recognize any persons parading themselves as state executive member of the Labour Party in Kwara State.
Thus, any persons parading themselves as such are nothing but mere rogues with the evil agenda of mortgaging the identity, structure and electoral fortune of our party to an incumbent but parasitic APC government in Kwara State especially when our national principal HE Peter Obi and our national executive are busy trying to retrieve our stolen presidential mandate from this same party.
“That the state exco of Labour Party, therefore, stands dissolved particularly for outright contempt and insubordination against our gubernatorial candidate.
“That for conspiring to sell short the Labour Party by agreeing to corner mere two positions of SPECIAL ASSISTANTS from the incumbent APC administration while sabotaging the larger interest of our party as against an inclusive alliance in a broader unity government with Peoples Democratic Party that is canvassed by our gubernatorial candidate, we believe that the so-called state chairman, his secretary and other shortsighted members should honourably resign their positions or stand expelled.
“We are authoritatively stating that the broader alliance for a unity government with PDP as canvassed by our gubernatorial candidate has the knowledge and approval of our national principal, His Excellency, Mr Peter Obi.
Therefore, the attempt of the state chairman and his excuse to sell our party to the incumbent APC is but a blatant sabotage of the authority of our national principal and an outright disloyalty to our party. For this reason, the state chairman and his excos are flagrantly against the genuine interest of the Labour Party and thus not representing our party henceforth.
“Lastly, we wish to state clearly that since the state chairman and his exco do not represent the genuine interest of our party and we do not have confidence in his authority, all subsequent actions by him and his cohorts stand impeached and of no effect whatsoever”.
