The disaster inside the Labour Party deepened on Sunday, July 13, because the faction led by Senator Nenadi Usman brazenly criticised the occasion’s suspended Nationwide Chairman, Julius Abure, for showing in {a photograph} with Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike.
In a strongly worded assertion signed by Ken Asogwa, the Senior Particular Adviser (Media) to the performing nationwide chairman, the faction accused Abure of aligning with political forces against the Labour Party’s core values and survival.
“Whereas Mr. Peter Obi is diligently centered on addressing crucial nationwide points, and Senator Nenadi Usman is attending high-level conferences overseas together with his full consent—each working within the supreme curiosity of the Labour Party and the Nigerian folks—Barr. Julius Abure, the suspended former nationwide chairman, is busy hobnobbing with the very forces which can be hell-bent on annihilating the occasion,” the assertion learn.
The group mentioned the viral picture of Abure with Wike solely confirms suspicions lengthy held inside the occasion about the place his actual political loyalties lie.
“As an alternative of standing with the folks, Abure is seen wining and eating with the sponsors of oppression, tyranny, and electoral malpractice,” the assertion continued.
“His actions lend additional credence to our long-held place: that Julius Abure isn’t just unfit for management, however a keen software within the fingers of exterior forces bent on destabilising the Labour Party from inside.”
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The faction additionally accused Abure of abandoning his management obligations throughout key moments within the occasion’s growth, claiming that his absence contributed to inner disarray.
“He went utterly lacking at crucial instances when the occasion required management, unity, imaginative and prescient, and strategic grassroots mobilisation,” it said.
“His dereliction of responsibility, compounded by his ongoing fraternisation with political adversaries of the New Nigeria imaginative and prescient, earned him suspension from the occasion.
“His fixed romance with these exterior forces raises a basic query: Whose agenda is Julius Abure actually serving?”
The group warned that the Labour Party’s future may very well be compromised if entrusted to people pursuing egocentric pursuits.
“It should not, and won’t, be left within the fingers of crooked people who commerce its soul for private acquire, whereas others proceed to make sacrifices for a greater, fairer, and extra simply Nigeria,” the assertion concluded.
