Abia LP disowns Abure’s primary election committee, warns aspirants

The Emmanuel Nweze Otti- led Labour Party, LP in Abia State has disowned a list of committee members reportedly constituted by the Julius Abure faction of the party to oversee the conduct of the party’s primaries before the November 2 local government election in the state.

Abure, according to social media reports, had announced the constitution of a committee to be headed by Ceekay Igara, the former Chairman of LP in Abia for the task.

But speaking to FLO 94.9 FM in Umuahia, State Secretary of the Party, Rev Andrew Ohiagba, disowned the Abure story, urging LP members to ignore the purported announcement.

Ohiagba said the State Working Committee, SWC was not consulted before such a committee was set up.

He further warned the public against dealing with anyone outside the rightly constituted State leadership of the Labour Party, led by Emmanuel Nweze Otti.

Also, speaking on the development, the Publicity Secretary of the party in Abia, Njoku StJerry Ajike, confirmed that sales of forms have commenced but urged aspirants to visit the party Secretariat and disregard any other announcement to that effect that did not emanate from either office of the State Publicity Secretary or the acting State Chairman of the Party.

Abia LP disowns Abure’s primary election committee, warns aspirants