The disaster rocking the management of the Labour Get together took a deeper dimension on Wednesday when the Nationwide Working Committee of the get together slammed a six-month suspension on its Nationwide Treasurer, Oluchi Opara.
The suspension was formally introduced at a media parley held on the get together secretariat in Abuja.
Opara had on Monday challenged the LP Nationwide Chairman, Julius Abure, at a press convention to account for an alleged N3.5bn raised from the sale of nomination varieties and fundraising actions within the build-up to the 2023 common elections.
Whereas talking on Come up TV’s “Good Morning Present” on Tuesday, Opara once more claimed that the Abure-led NWC was secretary working for the Peoples Democratic Get together in Edo State forward of the September 21 governorship election within the state.
Reacting to her weighty allegations on Wednesday, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh, labelled Opara a mole who was being utilized by dissidents within the get together.
Ifoh informed journalists that the choice to sanction Opara was taken after she did not honour an invite by the get together’s NWC to resolve the battle.
He mentioned, “After the 2023 common elections, the Labour Get together was marked for whole annihilation by the system for daring to upstage the established order of the political class. Little did we all know that the fumigation was removed from full till late final yr when indicators emanated that our Nationwide Treasurer, Ms Oluchi Opara, a key member of the manager, turned out to be a mole in the home and has continued networking with the expelled members of the get together management.
“Satisfied that the treasurer is on a mission to stifle life out of our very cherished get together, an emergency NWC was summoned on February 13. Arising from the assembly, the NWC arrange a disciplinary committee to attempt Opara for bringing the get together to disrepute. To train its powers as contained within the get together’s structure with the intention of a good listening to, the NWC prolonged an invite to her to seem earlier than it as we speak, February 14, by 10am to debate the event. The get together regrets that the treasurer shunned the invitation by the disciplinary committee to clear herself.
“We see this as an affront to the get together management and tens of millions of our members who’re watching how their get together’s picture, which they’ve laboured onerous to construct. The disciplinary committee has, nonetheless, advisable to the Nationwide Govt Council of the get together via the NWC that Ms Oluchi Opara be suspended from Labour Get together for at least six months. This suspension is with quick impact.
“We sincerely remorse this improvement. We nonetheless urge our teeming members to grasp that this can be a worth to pay for fulfillment. We’ll proceed to reform the get together till we obtain the perfect, adequate to drive our New Nigeria agenda.”
Efforts made to get Opara to react to her suspension proved unsuccessful.
As of the time of submitting this report, her line was unreachable.