The opposition Labour Party claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress, which according to it, displayed early indications of desperation before the general elections, was behind the continuous attacks on its leadership intended to destabilize the party.
This was stated in a statement made by the party’s Ag. National Youth Leader, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, on Monday in Abuja.
He lamented the fact that the Labour Party has recently been in the headlines for other things outside its outstanding success against stronger opposition like the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress.
Ahanotu said, “Before the campaigns, the Labour Party worked with a fixated aspiration, and that was to ensure that a new political order where Nigerians would take back their country from the marauding politicians is enthroned.
“Fortune smiled at the party the moment former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party.
“But as expected, political buccaneers surfaced from everywhere, seeking to reap where they did not sow.
“The first crisis was when a former Deputy National Chairman Calistus Okafor whose tenure had long elapsed suddenly resurfaced and attempted to hijack the leadership, but that was resisted.
“The courts punctured all his antics and permanently shut his evil enterprises.
“However, all hell was let loose when at the formation of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council, the name of the then National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi didn’t appear as the head of media and Publicity of the PCC.
“That didn’t sit or sink well with him. All his efforts to force his way through were unsuccessful as his treacherous past manifested vividly and spoke against him. He then resorted to declaring war against the party and the leadership.
“It would be plausible at this point to note here that the PCC members are populated by both party and non-party members who were assembled based on their competence and track records of sacrificial services by the presidential candidate to help in the prosecution of the campaigns and of course the election.
“The candidate deserves the right to choose the team he wants to work within the project.
“To some people, campaign time is a time to make money and milk candidates of their resources.
“This might be the practice in the other parties but this is a Labour Party, populated by Obidient fateful; a party without structure, bereft of billionaire sponsors, no government patronage, in fact, it is known as a party that doesn’t and will not give ‘Shishi’.
“The only driving force was the organic structure populated by younger Nigeria driven by a passion to rewrite the wrongs of the ageing leaders who mismanaged our Commonwealth.”
Ahanotu claimed that party members who disagreed with the vision and mission for a new Nigeria unwittingly assisted desperate politicians, particularly those from the APC, in their efforts to incite conflict inside the Labour Party and prevent the party from carrying out its swindled mandate.
He expressed confidence that sincere party members had seen through the antics of those who were willing to sell their souls for a pot of beans and were determined to thwart the scheme to sabotage the party’s honest efforts to create a new Nigeria that benefits everyone.