The National Executive Council of the Labour Party has
suspended the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkadir, and the
Deputy National Chairman, South, Calistus Okafor.
The suspension was one of the decisions taken at an
emergency NEC meeting held at the AED Apartments, Airport Road, Abuja, on
Monday.
A party member, who introduced himself as the party’s
National Youth Leader, Mr. Andrew Ukpebitere, addressed journalists after the
meeting, announcing the appointment of Bobo Adou and Akinbade Oyelekan as
acting national chairman and secretary, respectively.
Until his appointment, Adou was the National Vice-Chairman,
South-South.
But when contacted, Abdulkadir described his removal as an
exercise in futility.
He alleged that the persons behind the action were sponsored
by the party’s former governorship candidate in Delta State.
Abdulsalam said in a telephone interview with our
correspondent that “those who addressed that press conference are not our
members. They are individuals sponsored by one of our former standard bearers
who has joined the APC.”
Earlier, Ukpebitere said the NEC took the decision after
noting that since the October 11, 2014 national convention of the party held in
Akure, Ondo State, the LP’s affairs had been mismanaged.
He said members were disappointed that despite attempts to
make Abdulkadir change his leadership style, he continued to rule the party
with “persistent impunity, high-handedness, dictatorship, and crudeness.”
This, he said, “lead to the unjust, unconstitutional and
unilateral dissolution of the state executive committees of the party and the suspension
and/or expulsion of prominent members and leaders of the party by Alhaji
Abubakar Abulkadir Salam, supported by his willing lackeys.”
He was also accused of refusal to communicate amendments
made to the LP’s constitution at the party’s last convention to INEC
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