The Labour Party National Transition Committee, LPNTC, a body set up by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has dissociated itself from the planned State Congresses announced by the National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure.
The Media and Publicity Subcommittee Chairman, Tony Akani, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
Reacting, the National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, dismissed the LPNTC as unknown to the party as such statements emanating from it with respect to LP should be ignored by the public.
According to Akani, the public notice was designed to inform the general public, especially members of the Labour Party throughout Nigeria, that, “Ward, Local Government Area and State congresses purportedly being organized by the suspended former acting national chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his INEC discredited Nnewi convention impersonators in Anambra, Imo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Ondo, Kaduna, Adamawa and other states are acts“ run contrary to a subsisting court judgment.
He also stated that the planned congresses lack the support of the Nigeria Electoral Act, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigeria Constitution which established and regulates the affairs of political parties.
The group’s spokesperson recalled that the INEC, Labour Party leader Peter Obi and other informed, “law-abiding, legitimate stakeholders of the party nationwide” did not attend, participate in or recognize and have since consistently dissociated themselves from the Nnewi convention.
Akani explained that several stakeholders including INEC and the Labour Party’s National Leader, Peter Obi through his Spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, had at various times dissociated themselves from the Nnewi Convention as such, any action taken by persons purporting to have been elected at the said event remains a nullity.
