Labour Party recommends Suspended Acting National Publicity Secretary, Other Ogun Exco Members For Expulsion
Former Acting National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party Mr Abayomi Arabambi and former Chairman of the dissolved Exco of Labour Party in Ogun State, Mr Michael Ashade who were recently suspended by their Wards and Local Government Area Excos have been recommended for Expulsion from the Labour Party.
Their recommendation for expulsion which was at the instance of the Engr Jagun led State Executives of the Labour Party was the climax of the internal wranglings within the party in the last couple of months in Ogun.
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.
Their suspension and recommendation for expulsion which was communicated formally to the National Secretariat of the Party last week was premised on various anti party activities engaged in by Messers Abayomi Arabambi, Michael Ashade and their cohorts to destabilise, factionalise and bring the Party into disrepute acting as sponsored Agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC
The suspension and recommendation for expulsion of Mr Arabambi, Ashade and their cohorts was made known in a statement released in Abeokuta by Tokunbo Peters, Publicity Secretary of the party in Ogun state.
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 which was mediated by a Frontline Eldestatesman. 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 that 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.
It stated that the era when the Labour Party was used as a transactional platform for pecuniary gains by Mr Arabambi and his cohorts was over as 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 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.
