The forum of 36 state chairmen of the Labour Party (LP) has called on the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, to reconsider the suspension of party’s National Treasurer, Ms. Oluchi Opara, and re-admit her into the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The state chairmen led by the Abia State LP chairman, Mr. Ceekay Igara, made this call on Abure when they paid a solidarity visit to the National Secretariat of the party on Tuesday.
According to them, they align with the call by the National leader of the party, Mr. Peter Obi, for a forensic audit of the party’s finances in the interest of accountability.
Igara said: “We also want to assure you that we support wholeheartedly, all the decisions taken by the National Working Committee (NWC).
“But, we must also appeal on the issue of the suspension of the national treasurer. We appeal that they should revisit the process, they should revisit it so that they would know that we do not have anything to hide.
“We appeal to the National Working Committee to revisit that suspension, in the spirit of ones; in the spirit of our ability to build this party and the spirit of brotherhood.”
On the audit of the account, Igara said the forum of state chairmen of the party are fully aligned to it and called for a quick decision on that.
He added, “His decision to involve an independent auditor is a welcome one and we believe that the outcome will finally exonerate Julius Abure and also expose the lies being peddled by the suspended Treasurer.
“It is very clear that the sponsored crisis is the handwork of our political opponents that are afraid of the future of the party.
“They are probably nursing fears and are looking for every opportunity to derail the party and to ensure that it is unable to realize its set goals.
“The Labour Party is dynamite and the fear of the party is the beginning of wisdom for our opponents.
“We also want to use this opportunity to debunk the allegation that the Labour Party is planning to suspend our National Leader, Peter Obi.
“The party has not at any time contemplated a suspension of our leader. He remains our leader and will continue to lead the party in our avowed determination to pull this nation out from the strangulation under this present government.
“What you are witnessing now is orchestrated and will fizzle out very soon.”
Igara said the party is confident of Abure’s leadership and have passed a vote of confidence on him.
