JUST IN – LP Sacks Spokesperson, Dissolves Chapter.

JUST IN – LP Sacks Spokesperson, Dissolves Chapter.

The Labour Party’s National Working Committee terminated the appointment of its acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and dissolved the Ogun chapter over their alleged role in the expulsion of Doyin Okupe, Director General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council.

This comes as the NWC voted to support its embattled National Chairman, Julius Abure, saying it had reviewed all of the corruption allegations leveled against him and found him unfit.

Okupe and 10 members of the party were removed by the leadership of the Ogun State chapter of LP over alleged “non-financial membership status, political rascality, and misappropriation of funds.”

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The affected members were deputy State Chairman II East, Jagun Lookman; state Women Leader, Oluwabukola Soyoye, ex-state Treasurer, Gbadebo Fesomade; state Publicity Secretary, Jide Amusan; state Youth Leader, Abdulmalik Olaleye; Assistant State Youth Leader, Adeshina Shojobi; Senatorial Women Leader Ogun East, Deborah Adewale; Assistant State Secretary, Olatunde Abolade, Abel Olaleye, and Abayomi Collins.

Their dismissal was miffed with accusation and counter-accusation by the party’s hierarchy, which saw the National Chairman of the party labeled Obi’s DG sacking as “fake news.”

Abure claimed that the state executives had no locus standi to remove him.

However, following an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee in Abuja, the National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Farouk, announced the dismissal of the LP spokesperson, the dissolution of its state chapter in Ogun, and the suspension of its chairman and other executives.