The Lamidi Apapa-led Labor Party, LP, the faction has suspended 12 members for suspected anti-party conduct.
Veteran Nollywood actor Kenneth Okonkwo, who served as a spokesperson for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Committee, has been suspended. Before the presidential elections, he withdrew from the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Obiora Ifo, the interim national publicity secretary, strongly supported Peter Obi, the party’s 2016 presidential candidate, and was suspended.
A statement following yesterday’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Bauchi State announced their suspension.
According to the communiqué, the NEC also considers the behaviour of 12 members, including Obiora Ifo, Kenneth Okonkwo, Mrs. Adebayo Ekong, and Com. P.G. Igene, Adeola Adebanjo, Funke Awolowo, Sam Okpala, and Folusho, for their anti-party actions and disorderly behaviour towards the party leadership, including making statements without party consent.
“Thus, the NEC expelled them from the party in session. Additionally, it suspends all National Working Committee (NWC) members, state chairmen, and secretaries for disobeying the FCT High Court’s restraining order by attending the illegal NEC meeting that Barr Julius Abure called on April 18 in Asaba, Delta State.
It recommends that they be disciplined and investigated for dishonest and anti-party activities related to handling the Barr Julius Abure-directed governorship primaries on April 15 in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi. These include Chief Innocent Agumba, Dr. Ayo Olorunfemi, Mrs. Dudu Manuga, Mrs. Ladi Illiya, Prince Kenedy Ahanotu, and Mrs. Ladi Ahanotu, who are the state chairmen and secretaries that attended that unauthorised NEC meeting.
The NEC also looked at certain of the faction’s members’ anti-party actions and decided that the faction should support the decision of the Ogun State executives to remove some of its members for failing to pay dues for more than six months.
Engineers Akinpelu Shogunle and Lukmon Jagun Abiodun, Mr. Tokunbo Peters, Mr. Kehinde Shogunle, Bukola Shoyooye, Feson Gbadebo, Dayo Folarin, Adeshina Shojobi, Bamjoko Ajekpe, Tunde Taiwo, and Olatunde Abolade are among the affected members.
The others are Rev. Olufolabi Adebayo, Abosede Lamidi, Malik Olaleye, and Adesegun Banmodu.
