Labour Party Moves To Amend Obi’s PCC List Following Outrage

Labour Party Moves To Amend Obi’s PCC List Following Outrage
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The leadership of the Labour Party on Thursday held an emergency meeting to address the outrage that trailed the inclusion of some names as well as the exclusion of certain candidates nominated by members of its National Working Committee in its Presidential Campaign Council.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported on Tuesday that there was division in the party over Wednesday’s unveiling of the council.

Barely 24 hours after the PCC inauguration, there were criticisms over some of those who made the list.

One of such inclusion was a former Director of Information at Nigerian Defence headquarters, Major General John Enenche.

Reacting to the outrage on Thursday, the national chairman of the party, Julius Abure, admitted that they goofed in the composition of the campaign team.

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He said, ‘Our attention has been drawn to some errors of omission and wrongful inclusions in the Presidential Campaign Council list released by the party yesterday. The party is making efforts to correct all these anomalies.

‘We appeal to those affected to please await the redress we are currently strenuously working on. We will publish an updated version of the Presidential Campaign Council list shortly.’

A chieftain of the Labour Party, Oluwadare Joseph, has chided the party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for allegedly reneging on a pledge to compensate him with N500m for stepping down for the former Anambra State Governor.

Spokesman of the Rescue Nigeria Movement, a group loyal to Joseph, Rufai Siddiq, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja, on Thursday, also slammed the party’s national chairman, Julius Abure, for giving the presidential ticket to Obi on a platter in a primary election that ‘never held.’

Siddiq said Joseph and the over 8.3 million supporters he brought to the party have been unfairly treated since he dropped his ambition for Obi to run.

Africa Daily News, New York

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