Labour Party To Sue Rep Over Defection To APC

The Labour Party (LP) in Ebonyi State has announced its intention to take legal action against Ifeanyi Ogba following his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ogba was elected in the 2023 general election under the Labour Party to represent the Onicha East constituency in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly.

Chief Innocent Igiri, the publicity secretary of the Ebonyi State Labour Party, made this revelation during an enlarged stakeholders’ meeting held at the San Diego Hotel in Abakaliki on Thursday.

Igiri asserted that the Labour Party platform on which Ogba was elected belongs to the party, and they are prepared to reclaim their mandate through the courts.

In addition, the party spokesperson highlighted that the Ebonyi State chapter of the Labour Party will abstain from the upcoming local government elections, criticizing them as selective processes.

He further mentioned that the national transition committee is actively working to reposition the Labour Party across Nigeria, including in Ebonyi State.

According to him: “The local government election in Ebonyi State is one group activity and we are encouraging the Attorney General of the Federation to continue what he is doing to get governors to implement various laws that give local government autonomy and also to make it a law that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should be conducting local government elections. That is when we will be proud to participate in local government elections.”

He added: “We issued a disclaimer when we saw that some people whom we didn’t know had purchased nomination and interest forms. We quickly went to the media, stating that the Labour Party does not have any candidates for the local government election in Ebonyi State.

“The way some politicians play their politics in the state is that they will go and bring someone who is not a Labour Party member to stand in for election so that they will say that Labour Party has failed the election, which is why we made it categorically clear that we do not have any candidates for local government elections.”

He further stated that the party is unperturbed by the defection of some of its members to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.

“We are going to challenge the Labour Party House of Assembly member who recently defected to the All Progressive Congress to court because his mandate belongs to our party,” he affirmed.

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