Labour Party Crisis Deepens As Ogun Chapter Moves To Expel Chieftains

The Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has recommended the expulsion of a former acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi; the state Chairman, Michael Ashade, and six others.

Others recommended for expulsion are 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.

Naija News understands that the recommendation was made known through a press statement issued by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Tokunbo Peters.

Peters disclosed that the recommendation became necessary following various alleged anti-party activities carried out by eight executive members of the party adding that the recommendation has been forwarded to the national secretariat of the LP last week.

According to him, 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.

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.”