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The Labour Party (LP) has accused Abia State Governor Alex Otti and Peter Obi, its previous presidential candidate, of trying to take over the party’s organizational framework.

The National Executive Committee, or NEC, that Obi and Otti called was deemed unlawful by LP’s National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim.

Ibrahim also denounced in a statement he signed Obi and Otti’s choice to bring conflicting LP members to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office.

Otti led a high-level LP team visited the INEC headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday to talk about important party developments.

According to a previous ZINGTIE article, Julius Abure was fired by the country’s highest court, which also requested that he cease posing as the National Chairman of the LP.

Governor Otti formally delivered a Certified True Copy of the most recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the party’s leadership during the visit to INEC.

Ibrahim retorted that the visit revealed Obi and Otti’s desperate attempt to seize control of the party’s leadership.

He said: “The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to an illegal NEC meeting convened by Dr Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor and Peter Obi, Labour Party’s former Presidential candidate wherein they have continued to live in an unhealthy paradise and deluding themselves.

“At the end of their illegal meeting in Abuja today, Mr. Peter Obi led other party outlaws to the Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in attempt to pressure the electoral Commission to take illegal action against our party leadership.

“The mission has shown the high level of desperation of Peter Obi and Dr. Alex Otti in trying to hijack the structure of the party. If really the Supreme Court decision is in their favour, why are they rushing to INEC to be putting undue influence on the Commission to do the wrong thing.

“Also in their meeting today, they also boasted of wanting to give the National Chairman, Barrister Abure a soft landing by offering him the position of the Chairman, Board of Trustees. But unfortunately for them, Abure didn’t make himself the National Chairman, therefore it is not about Abure but about what the structures have said. It is about the supremacy of the organs of party and it is about doing things right.

“We therefore condemned that illegal meeting and we call on our members and the general public to disregard the meeting and its outcome.”

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