Palpable Crisis is brewing in the Labour Party following the release of a Presidential Campaign council list by the Director-General of the council, Doyin Okupe, on Wednesday.
POLITICS NIGERIA earlier gathered that shortly after Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, announced the list, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Comrade Arambabi Abayomi, in a short message to newsmen, stated:
“We are not involved in Dr Okupe’s mischievous political shenanigans. That is not the party’s programme. He can’t be talking about our party, our party all the time. Which party? Is he the leader of the Labour Party now to announce himself as the DG? It’s an anomaly. Who announced the DG of Atiku? Atiku did it. When Tinubu announced his DG, the party did it.”
“Where is Peter Obi? Okupe doesn’t know what he is doing. I want to be quoted. The DG ought to go to the North East or North Central.”
“We are not a sectional political party. Our presidential candidate is Pan Nigerian. How can we have a presidential candidate from the South and the Campaign DG coming from the same South.”
It’s also worthy of note that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi was not present at the event.
More to come…
