Labour Party Crisis Becomes Messier As Treasurer Makes New Disclosures

The embattled national treasurer of Labour Party who was recently suspended by the National Working Committee, NWC, Ms Oluchi Oparah has opened new dimensions to the crisis in the party and explained why she is asking the national chairman, Barrister Juluis Abure to step down.

Oluchi Oparah spoke in an interview following the dismissal of her allegations of misappropriation of N3.5 billion by the national chairman of Labour Party

GWG.ng reports that Abure had on Thursday dismissed her claim saying that what entered into Labour Party accounts was N1.3 billion besides another N700 million that came into the campaign fund.

Abure had also alleged that Ms Oluchi Oparah was suspended from her position as treasurer in 2017 over alleged inconsistencies in the accounts of Labour Party.

Responding to his assertions, Oparah speaking on AIT prime political programme, Democracy Today on Thursday night also questioned the decision of the national chairman to send the audited accounts to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC without her signature.

She said:

“He said he had tendered it to INEC, (but) with whose signature? Why would you tender an audit report to INEC without my signature?

Why would he give it to the National Secretary to endorse? What am I doing?

“The first time that they brought this (audited report) to me, there was a position for me to sign but when I said I wasn’t going to sign it, the next thing he did was to remove the part I was supposed to sign.”

According to Oparah beyond the N1.3 billion that entered into the party accounts and the N700 million into the campaign funds, other funds also came into the party during the off-cycle elections.

“The reruns we had over N30m, this Edo that we are in now will have over N200m, Kogi, Bayelsa, Imo, we had over N958m. I have not even added the diaspora figures,” she alleged.

Asserting that she was not being sponsored to smear Peter Obi as alleged by the leadership of Labour Party, Oluchi Oparah said:

“This is not about Peter Obi. Petr Obi is a very wonderful person. I will support him with everything I have. Peter Obi has been an exemplary leader.

“Let him step aside, let there be an investigation. Let the NWC see reasons with me that I am not fighting a personal fight, No.

“If I were being sponsored I have been writing letters for the past seven months. I was trying to exhaust the internal mechanisms of our party but unfortunately, it failed.”

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