Labour Party Accuses APC Of Beating Lamidi Apapa’s Men In Benin

A new twist to the blue and black beating of Anslem Eragbe, the National Youth Leader of the Lamidi Apapa faction of Labour Party in Benin City emerged at the weekend after the chairman of the party in Edo State, Comrade Kelly Ogbaloi blamed the All Progressives Congress, APC for the melee.

Ogbaloi in a press conference said that Labour Party was not involved in the beating as against the claims of many people in social media, saying that Eragbe had ceased to be a member of the Labour Party

According to him Eragbe who he described as a former National Youth Leader was in conspiracy with the Laimidi Apapa tendency to destabilise Labour Party and were sponsored by the APC for the venture to destabilise the opposition party.

GWG.ng, however, reports that Apapa has in the past dismissed such claims of being on the payroll of the APC.

Ogbaloi at his press conference alleged that the APC sent its men after Eragbe for his alleged failure to deliver on the promise to destroy Labour Party and were as such responsible for the beating.

He said:

“Trending in the news today is that one Anslem Eragbe was beaten up by Labour Party officials. Eragbe who was an erstwhile National Youth Leader of Labour Party having been expelled was beaten and today we are hearing that some people within the political environment of Nigeria and Edo State in particular have credited that incident to Labour Party.

“We are here to refute that in totality. Labour Party is a decent party, law abiding and will have no reason whatsoever to result to violence in addressing issues that confront it.

“If we were to do this we wouldn’t have gone to court initially to deal with the issues that Eragbe and his cohorts brought to us.

“Eragbe could have been beaten up in his circumstances that he has always been in…fr–dulent activities and all that.

“We are aware that in the time that they were going after Labour Party that they were heavily sponsored by the APC and today we have the information that indeed because of a lot of money that they have been sponsored by the APC and because they have been unable to deliver on the promises that they made to APC, that the APC is against them and they are following them up and down and as a result of that sent people after them.

“So, this beating of Eragbe must be a matter that should be brought up to the door step of APC to find out what happened to him and not Labour Party.

“We make bold to say that Anslem Eragbe is no longer a member of Labour Party, he is not our member, we don’t know him.

“So, whatever is associated with him cannot be associated with us Labour Party.

“We have no reason to send anybody after Eragbe  and it is not to our conviction that if he was beaten that our members were involved in it,” he said in blaming the APC for beating Eragbe.

GWG.ng has been unable to get Eragbe to confirm the narration from Labour Party but the Apapa faction had in the past distanced from any ties with the APC.

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