Forum of Chairmen of Labour Party has passed a vote of confidence in Barrister Julius Abure, National Chairman of the party, saying there is no room for exchange of batoon.
The decision was reached on Tuesday on the occasion of a solidarity visit to the Chairman in his office.
According to Ceekay Igara Chairman, Council of State Chairmen, “we are here to pay a solidarity visit to the entire members of the National Working Committee of our great party and particularly to our National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure.
“We are here to reinforce our confidence in Barrister Abure’s leadership of the Labour Party and his ability to provide good and transparent leadership.
“We are a critical part of the leadership of the Labour Party being members of the National Executive Committee.
“This present NWC is our baby and we have entrusted our collective trust in it having carefully selected it based on the members’ pedigree, integrity and administrative capacity to lead the rest of us.
“This leadership has displayed high level of transparency in the management of the party finances.
“The audit report as prepared by the external auditor is very clear about the finances of the party. Let me emphatically state here that our money is not missing. We didn’t generate N3.5b as claimed by the now suspended National Treasurer.
“We can confirm that the party only realized N1.3 million during the 2023 general election and another Seven Hundred Million naira donations which was used by the Presidential Campaign Council.
“All these monies were lodged in the banks and were promptly receipted. The audit is also clear about the money generated during the off season elections and how it was managed.
“We also want to use this opportunity to debunk the allegation that the Labour Party are planning to suspend our National Leader, Peter Obi. Like we said earlier, our party is under worst siege ever, including unleashing fierce propaganda against the party.
“The party has not at any time contemplated a suspension of our leader. He remains our leader and will continue to lead the party in our avowed determination to pull this nation out from the strangulation under this present government. We are also using this opportunity to beg our media friends to cease on going media trial against our party and its leaders. What you are witnessing now is orchestrated and will fizzle out very soon.
“We are also aware that some people are afraid of the fortunes of the party in Edo state governorship election. Our exploits in Edo state, generally referred as the headquarters of the OBIDIENT Movement in Nigeria has not ceased to discomfort them and they are going all the way to fan embers of discord within the party. We want to assure them that their plots will fail and the party will trudge on to massive victory.”
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