The Lagos State chapter of Labour Party, under the leadership of Comrade Olukayode Salako, has on Wednesday, taken a stand behind the party’s National Working Committee in passing vote of confidence on the National Chairman of the Party, Comrade Barrister Julius Abure.
LP Lagos applauded the party on its decision to relieve the acting National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Abayomi Arabambi of his duties.
Recall that the National Working Committee of Labour Party, had on Friday, December 9, 2022, decisively terminated the appointment of its acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and dissolved the Ogun State chapter of the party, over the audacious and insubordinating role they played in the alleged expulsion of the Director General of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and other inglorious anti-party activities manifested around the period.
The National Working Committee consequently passed a vote of confidence on the leadership of National Chairman, Comrade Julius Abure, having reviewed the corruption allegations leveled against him and found him not culpable.
Passing the vote of confidence on the National Chairman of the party, Salako said that Comrade Abure is a passionate Party man, who is intentional about his Party, forming the next national government in Nigeria, and as well, taking over good number of states in the country, come 2023 general election.
Salako said that Abure’s zeal and belief in Labour Party project, has spurred him and other party members to work assiduously for the victory of Mr. Peter Obi/Yusuf Datti Hammed, and other candidates of the party in 2023.
He, in his own conviction, absorbed the National Chairman of any form of possible corrupt practices, or selfish financial aggrandizement.
The Lagos State chapter of the party is, therefore, calling on Mr. Arabambi, his family, acquaintances and cronies to help with his mental health, before it gets out of hand. Mental health assessment and therapy would certainly go a long way in restoring and stabilizing his physical, mental and psychological wellbeing.
Salako alludes that ‘All along, his character, and the way he behaves in the party have been very strange’.
It is hilarious how Arabambi accuses the National Chairman of forgery and fraudulent malfeasance, but in the actual sense, he is the one who went about collecting money, in different guises, from candidates and members of the party to fix their names as candidates for the next year election.
His reckless conduct have caused the party from fielding candidates in strategic positions in the party for the forthcoming general election, in almost all the South West states.
Sadly, the Labour Party in Ogun State, do not have candidates at all for the forthcoming elections in the country.
Furthermore, Arabambi has no constitutional rights to discuss the financial issues, or court cases of the party in the public domain, since he is neither the Financial Secretary, nor Legal Adviser of the party.
It is worrisome that at this critical time of the party’s structural formation, and the nation’s history, when peace, love, progress and success should be the unifying force, Arabambi who had been saddled with the responsibility of being the LP voice and imagemaker, chose to be about the only official of the party, who has been standing against the Party.
The anxiety of Arabambi’s anti-party activities became so heightened to members of Labour Party, when it was discovered that he has been staying in an all-expense paid Ogun State Government hotel, Mitros Hotel, in Abeokuta for over five months now.
Arabambi, whose stock in trade is destabilizing the structure of the party across the South West, while grandstanding with his position as the party’s Publicity Secretary to serve the purpose of his pay masters, who are already jittery of the giant strides of the party in these states, and, therefore, recruited a willing mole in the person of Arabambi to continually destabilize the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.
Salako stated that relative peace has since returned to Lagos State Chapter of the Labour Party, since the expulsion of the Judas in the midst of the party, while reminding Arabambi that he has never been a card carrying member of Lagos State chapter of the party, so had no _Locus_Standi_ in the first place to interfere in the activities of the party in the state.
He urge all well-meaning Nigerians and Labour Party faithfuls to remain focused on the prize, which is to ensure Labour Party becomes the next ruling party in Lagos, and by extension Nigeria.