Gov. Otti, Julius Abure on collision course over LP NWC tenure

The crisis rocking the Labour Party deepened, on Tuesday, when the party’s leadership warned Governor Alex Otti of Abia State to stick to governance and stop meddling in the party’s administration, Punch reports.

Punch said that the National Chairman of LP, Julius Abure, issued the warning at a press conference held, in Abuja.

Abure lamented that it was bad enough for the party to endure criticisms and persecution from those seeking to tear the party apart than to watch its own chieftains, members and stakeholders toe the same path.

The LP National Chairman’s anger stemmed from a recent meeting he had with Otti where the Abia governor stated his intention to convene a National Executive Meeting meeting on August 31 to ‘dissolve the National Executive Council, State Executive Council, Local Government Executive Council and Ward Executive Council’ on the purported ground that their tenures expired.

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But Abure kicked, saying it was not the position of the governor to consider taking such a decision.

Consequently, he announced to journalists on Tuesday that the National Working Committee of the party had set up a disciplinary committee to henceforth sanction erring members or bigwigs who make decisions that could undermine the party.

He said, “The National Working Committee also notes that assuming, without conceding, that the tenure of the current NWC has even expired, we must state clearly that it is not the responsibility of Dr Alex Otti as the Governor of Abia State to convene a NEC meeting for the purpose of setting up a caretaker committee. It is still the responsibility of the national chairman and the national secretary of the party to convene such a meeting.

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