Ogun LP factions disagree over officials’ suspension
The Labour Party in Ogun State has recommended eight executive members, including the former acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi; the state Chairman, Michael Ashade, and six others for expulsion.
The recommendation for expulsion was made known through a press statement issued by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Tokunbo Peters, in which he stated that the recommendation was due to various alleged anti-party activities carried out by the affected executive members of the party.
Peters said the recommendation was formally communicated to the national secretariat of the LP last week.
He said Arabambi and Ashade were recently suspended by the executive members of their wards and local government areas and were later recommended for expulsion from the party by the state executive council of the party.
The statement listed others recommended for expulsion as Feyisayo Michael, Tosin Meadows, Seun Ogunyemi and Lizzy Oliseh-Samuel, who were the state secretary, state organising secretary, state auditor and state financial secretary of the Labour Party, respectively.
Peters said, “Their suspension and recommendation for expulsion, which was communicated formally to the national secretariat of the party last week, was premised on various anti-party activities engaged in by Messers Abayomi Arabambi, Michael Ashade and their cohorts to destabilise, factionalise and bring the party into disrepute, acting as sponsored agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
“The statement further disclosed that before their eventual suspension, several warnings and cautions were given to make them refrain from their anti-party activities, especially through a peace and reconciliatory meeting, which was mediated by a frontline elder statesman.
“But rather than turn a new leaf, Arabambi and his cohorts became more recalcitrant and belligerent to satisfy their paymasters in the ruling APC.
“The party admonished the Inter Party Advisory Council in Ogun State to desist from relating with Michael Ashade and his cohorts, as they no longer hold any executive positions in the Labour Party.”
When contacted for response, Ashade described the caretaker executive council in the state as invalid.
He said his faction would soon press criminal charges against the other faction.
