Reps’ Labour Party Caucus Leader Mocks Abure Over Brainless ‘NEC’

Leader of the Labour Party caucus in the House of Representatives, Rep Victor Ogene has mocked the party’s embattled factional chairman, Barrister Julius Abure over his claim that he, Ogene has been removed from his position as caucus leader.

Ogene spoke following the resolutions adopted by the Abure led National Executive Committee, NEC which among others warned party leaders, Peter Obi and Governor Alex Otti against their involvement in summoning a rival NEC meeting for Wednesday. Ogene in the resolution was also dismissed from his position, a development that the caucus leader mocked at in an interview with GWG.ng.

While affirming that Abure lacked legal platform to take any decision on Labour Party affairs upon the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed that his tenure had expired, Ogene also ridiculed the claim that he had been sacked as caucus leader.

Mocking Abure over his assertions, Ogene said:

“He does not know that he who hires can fire. Did Abure hire me as caucus leader? The answer is no. I was elected by a college of my colleagues. We stood for election, three of us and by the grace of my colleagues I won that election. My colleagues have not lost confidence in me.”

Mocking Abure over the low profile attendees at his NEC meeting, Ogene said:

“Ask Abure how many House of Representatives members attended his so called illegal NEC meeting? That will solve the problem. Let me know if he had more than four of my members in that meeting then he has the moral high ground to be talking.

“But I know that out of 28 of us in Labour Party today he will not have more than four and I don’t see how four will lead 24.

“Another point is that on Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton, the statutory members of NEC who the Supreme Court has imposed on the duty of rescuing the party will be holding a meeting concurrently with an enlarged stakeholders’ meeting,” he said inviting the media to watch out for the presence of reputable leaders of the party at the Wednesday NEC meeting.

Ogene also mocked Abure over his assertion that he should return the party’s funds in his custody.

“Abure is directing himself to handover the money of the caucus but in his tomfoolery that I am not the treasurer of the caucus and that I do not hold one penny of the funds of the party or the caucus.”

“We have funds, yes, but it does not belong to Abure, it belongs to the caucus.

“I am not Abure who is tainted in every transaction. In his home state of Edo, you saw how he was dragged on the floor like a common criminal.”

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Opening up on why Abure is fuming against him, Ogene said:

“It was my reaction to the Supreme Court judgment that is rattling him. He should not be rattled. As I said in that statement there is nowhere that elective conventions are done in an inverted pyramid style, from the top to the bottom. Delegates are generated from the ward to the local government, to states, to national.”

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