Spokesperson for the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) Kenneth Okonkwo has weighed in on the division and protracted crisis in the party. <\/p>\n
The LP has been enmeshed in a leadership crisis since an High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on April 5 stopped the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure; National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim; and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.<\/p>\n
Apapa, then-Deputy National Chairman, South, went on to assume the position of national chairman in an acting capacity, a situation that has led to accusations of duplicity.<\/p>\n
Asked to respond to the arguments of seemingly conflicting court judgements on the party\u2019s leadership, Okonkwo said the parallel leadership should not be seen as legitimate.<\/p>\n
Speaking during a chat on Channels TV on Monday, the campaign spokesman described Apapa and his loyalists as \u201cpoliticians of convenience\u201d and \u201cfortune\u201d, rather than of \u201cconviction\u201d and \u201cfortitude\u201d.<\/p>\n
He further argued that one should \u201cnot ever call them a faction\u201d of the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no crisis in Labour Party and I refer you to the Labour Party constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cArticle 13(1)(b)(iv) says it is only the national convention that can elect or remove the national officers. And then Article 13(2)(b)(xvi) and (xvii) says it is only the NEC that can replace the vacancy in any national office and that it is only the NEC that can discipline any national officer. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, please, these people you\u2019re calling that they are a faction of Labour Party, who brought them in as national officers of Labour party? They are not in any way any Labour Party national officers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spokesperson for the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) Kenneth Okonkwo has weighed in on the division and protracted crisis in the party. The LP has been enmeshed in a leadership crisis since an High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on April 5 stopped the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":196840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26330,53850,38883,13793],"class_list":["post-266118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-apapa","tag-arabambi","tag-lp","tag-okonkwo"],"yoast_head":"\n