Be grateful, step aside, group tells Abure

By Zika Bobby

With the appointment of a new caretaker committee for the Labour Party (LP), led by Nenadi Usman, a group, Oga Ndi Oga Foundation has called on the former party chairman, Julius Abure, to be grateful to God and have the courage to step aside.

Speaking on the latest development in the party,  founder of the group, Chief Godwin Agbasimelo, a Board of Trustee (BoT) member, said Abure has in recent time proved to lack the experience, capacity, competence and will power to move the LP forward, considering his negligence to critical issues of the party mostly in Anambra, noting that he abandoned those who engineered the rise of the party from Anambra State.

He explained how Abure abandoned him and the governorship candidate, saying: “I made the Labour Party what it is today. People like the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and Senator Andy Ubah had, at different points, used the Labour Party to run for governorship elections in Anambra State, but couldn’t make any meaningful impact on the party, instead they used and dumped the party, but I picked up the party, nurtured and groomed it to a mass movement in Anambra State and subsequently, Peter Obi came on board and the party became a hurricane at national level under Abure as National Chairman.

“But to my greatest surprise, Abure, as the LP chairman, never cared to recognise and appreciate my contribution. He has never deemed it right enough to ask of this man that did so much to bring the party to limelight. He doesn’t ask of me and the family of the 2021 governorship candidate. He never considered it right enough to send even a bag of rice to the family of the kidnapped governorship candidate knowing that the family has apparently lost their bread winner.

“Let him step aside, join hands with the Caretaker Committee to reposition the party and then take another challenge towards 2027. He can run for senate or any other position in 2027 or be appointed Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, or a Minister if the Labour Party wins presidency in 2027,” he added.

He called on those instigating Abure to drag the issue with Senator Usman to sheathe their sword and join hands to move the party forward in 2027.