…As Obi, Abure get full Allegiance of the Party
Former Acting National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Mr. Abayomi Arabambi and former Chairman of the dissolved EXCO of the Party in Ogun State, Mr. Michael Ashade have been recommended for Expulsion from the Labour Party by the Engr Jagun led State EXCO of LP in Ogun State.
Both were recently suspended by their Wards and Local Government Areas EXCOS in Ogun State.
The suspension and recommendation for expulsion of Arabambi, Ashade and their cohorts were contained in a statement released on Thursday in Abeokuta by Tokunbo Peters, Publicity Secretary of the party in Ogun state.
Also recommended for expulsion by the State EXCO for various anti party activities after being suspended by their Wards and LGAs EXCOS are Mr. Feyisayo Michael and Mr. Tosin Ogunbona Meadows, Baba Seun Ogunyemi, Mrs. Lizzy Oliseh-Samuel, former State Secretary, State Organising Secretary, State Auditor, State Financial Secretary respectively.
According to the statement, their suspension and recommendation for expulsion which were communicated formally to the National Secretariat of the Party last week was premised on various anti party activities engaged in by Abayomi Arabambi, Michael Ashade and their cohorts.
The Party said such activities were intended to destabilize, factionalize and bring the Party into disrepute acting as sponsored Agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The statement further disclosed that before their eventual suspension, several warnings and cautions were given to make them to refrain from their anti-party activities, especially through a peace and reconciliatory meeting, mediated by a frontline Elder statesman.
“But rather than turn a new leaf, Arabambi and his cohorts became more recalcitrant and belligerent to satisfy their paymasters in the ruling APC.”
The statement added: “The Labour Party is not unmindful of the romance between the suspended members and the ruling APC Government in the State and the various attempts made by Arabambi and his cohorts to destroy Labour Party from within.
“Amongst these are his role in ensuring that candidates of the Labour Party were not listed for any of the elective offices in Ogun state in the just concluded elections and his sinister plot to remove some National Officers of the party from office through APC sponsored judicial ploy.”
The statement added that the era when the Labour Party was used as a transactional platform for pecuniary gains by Mr. Arabambi and his cohorts was over.
“The party under the able leadership of both Peter Obi and Julius Abure, Presidential Candidate and National Chairman respectively, is now firmly in the grips of committed professionals and conscious Youths, who have now repositioned the Party as a formidable force in Nigeria and therefore can now favourably compete for all elective political offices in the country.”
The statement finally admonished the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Ogun state to desist from relating with Michael Ashade and his cohorts, as they no longer hold any executive positions in Labour Party.
