NAIJA NEWS
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party has disowned the Lamidi Apapa-led faction and distanced itself from a parallel National Executive Council meeting held in Bauchi.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday after a stakeholders meeting, Deputy National Chairman of the Party, Comrade Ladi Illiya, loyal to the Julius Abure-led faction, said those who gathered in Bauchi to hold a fake, unconstitutional NEC meeting do not represent the party.
The Labour Party also accused Apapa of being sponsored by two governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said: “In their desperation to satisfy their paymasters, who we have already established to be two governors; one from South West and another from South East, while also using a top member of the APC National Working Committee who go in between them, this transactional arrangement will see them recruiting their usual customers; touts, market women, street hawkers. And people who are not members of the party.
“We also heard from a reliable source that they will attempt to have a blanket suspension of all our elected members of our NWC, a power that is alien and unheard of. They have also been dangling carrots to some of our leaders to either join them or be suspended.
“This is unfortunate because, were it not for the ex-parte order of the FCT High Court mischievously granted and sustained by Justice Hamza Muazu, which dangerously exposed the res, that is, the party, to danger instead of protecting it, these matters would have died a natural death.
