Labour Party (LP) has wielded the big stick with the sack of its acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi for dragging the image of the party he is meant to protect through the mud.
Arabambi had, on Thursday, taken on the Chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure, accusing him publicly of cheating party members over the 2023 general elections without exhausting the internal party conflict resolution mechanism.
But in a quick riposte on Friday, the party, said it reached the decision to sack the erstwhile spokesperson after a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC), which also dissolved the executives of the Ogun State chapter of the party.
A fortnight ago, Arabambi and members of the Ogun leadership, had announced the expulsion of Doyin Okupe, the Director General of the LP Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC).
They had claimed that the party boss mismanaged party funds voted for its presidential campaign in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The party explained on Friday that the axe finally fell on him alongside the Ogun executives as a result of their involvement in anti-party activities, a move, which seemed to have widened the crisis in the party, coming just about two months to the February 25 presidential election.
On Thursday, Arabambi had accused Abure of obtaining money under pretence and defrauding candidates and aspirants who obtained nomination forms to contest on the platform of the party, in a petition by his lawyer to the LP leadership.
Stating that the party boss abused and used his office to corruptly enrich himself by obtaining money under false pretence from candidates, he said the alleged victims, had inundated his office with inquiries over their fate in the hands of the party Chairman.
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