Nkiruka Onyejeocha Is Hell-Bent On Stirring Up Crisis In Labour Party – Kennedy Ahanotu

The leadership of the Labour Party has come out to accuse the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkiruka Onyejeocha of having an alliance with the Lamidi Apapa faction to stir a crisis in the party.

LP National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, he has no doubt that Nkiruka is working in league with some expelled members of the party to cause problems in LP, especially because she is willing to go to any length to create a division.

He added that the former lawmaker is clearly fighting a personal and proxy war against the party at this point.

His words, “The leadership of the Labour Party wishes to inform Nigerians on yet an unholy alliance between the Minister of State for Labour, Nkiruka Onyejeocha, and some expelled members of our party led by Chief Lamidi Apapa, whose purpose is to ensure that crisis is sustained perpetually in our party.

One may begin to wonder what connects the minister and the Labour Party that she will go to the length of instigating and funding crisis within the party. We are, however, aware that the former lawmaker is fighting a personal and proxy war against the party.

Onyejeocha has been in the national assembly since 2007 until the February 25 general election when she was defeated by Amobi Ogah by a very wide margin. Her loss to Amobi Ogah was a pill too hard to swallow; hence, she has vowed to use all her connections to ensure that the election declared by INEC is upturned in her favour.

The desperation by lawyers from the firm of Yunus Ustaz Usman to insist on representing INEC, even when the firm had already written to INEC withdrawing its services, stoked our curiosity. But the embarrassed Usman has completely distanced himself from the action.

On further investigation, we realised that INEC failed to release this letter written on the 17th by the firm of Yunus Ustaz Usman (SAN) withdrawing from the case. The letter only surfaced after the unfortunate incident at the Appeal Court. So we are wondering if there was any threat from high places against officials of the INEC preventing them from making the letter public.

We also took special note of the presence of the Apapa-led splinter group, which attempted to hijack the representation of the party at the court. How did this splinter group come into the scenario and who got them involved? It is a known fact that this group has evolved as meddlesome interlopers and has severally worked against the larger interest of the Labour Party, even when the Supreme Court has refused them recognition.”