The expulsion of the Director-General of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, by his Ogun State home chapter has been declared null and void by the party’s national leadership.
LP National Secretary, Umar-Farouk Ibrahim, stated this while addressing reporters in Abuja on Friday. Ibrahim said that the national leadership of the party was surprised at the expulsion by the Ogun chapter which was without due process.
“The Ogun State Chapter has acted outside its constitutional jurisdiction, the party has a conflict resolution mechanism of handling cases against members as enshrined in the party’s constitution,” he said.
He added that “There are also disciplinary measures to be taken, for example, before you discipline any member, there are certain procedures that you have to follow, you have to issue query among other procedures, and that has not been followed.
“No complaint was written by the state chapter, his ward and his local government, so we are saying the national headquarters is not aware of what they are doing, they are doing it on their own.
“The National Working Committee (NWC) is going to set up a committee and appropriate disciplinary action would be taken against the perpetrators in the state exco and we are going to fish them out and take appropriate action.”
Ibrahim said the expulsion was void as Okupe remained a card-carrying member of Labour Party and the DG of its PCC. He said that the party was not unaware of attempts by opposition parties to infiltrate its structures at all levels.
He added that the party’s leadership would do everything within its powers to ensure that its cohesion was not tempered with and would not be distracted by the antics of the opposition candidates until all its candidates were victorious in the 2023 general election.
He expressed worry over recent attacks on party members, candidates and officials in some states, particularly Edo, Ebonyi and Kaduna states where the state women leader was gruesomely murdered.
