The Labour Party (LP) has disowned one of its members, Chief Basil Maduka, describing him as an ally of Lamidi Apapa.
After the Supreme Court ruled that he was an impostor, Apapa, a former factional chairman of the LP, has since been in a political war with the party.
The apex court recognised Julius Abure as the authentic chairman of the party in its ruling.
Late on Tuesday, an invitation was circulated to some media personnel inviting them for a press briefing today.
The invitation stated that Chief Maduka is a candidate from “Abure Faction”.
In a statement by its spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, the LP alerted the public that Maduka is one of the two aspirants who stage-managed Imo state governorship primaries under the supervision of Lamidi Apapa.
Ifoh said:
”He is one of the agents of Apapa who under the influence created crisis in the Labour Party. He is the same character who sued the party up till the Supreme Court but lost woefully.
”After losing out at the Supreme Court, he and his cohorts are probably hatching another plot to perpetuate their sinister motives. His claims that he is from Abure-led executive raised our curiosity, hence our raising the alarm. Basil Maduka is not known to our party. He is a co-conspirator with Apapa.
”We are therefore calling on the media and general public to flee from these agents of destabilisation who will stop at nothing at ensuring that Labour Party lives with unnecessary cracks.
”The party had also, on Monday, in a press briefing, appealed to the media against giving audience to these expelled members of the party and their cohorts who have been consistently impersonating the officials of our party.
”We restate here that with the Supreme Court’s recent pronouncement on the Labour Party issue, all crises before now has ceased. There is no faction in the party, as Julius Abure remains the only recognised national chairman of the party.”
