I Belong To Nenadi Usman’s Labour Party – Senator Neda Imasuen

I Belong To Nenadi Usman's Labour Party - Senator Neda Imasuen

The Chairman Senate Committee on Public Petitions and Code of Conduct, Senator Neda Imasuen, has condemned the crisis ravaging the Labour Party (LP).

The LP Senator said what continued to deepen the leadership crisis of the party was the dispositions of some its leaders.

In an interview with AIT on Friday, Imasuen stated that the party lawmakers who defected did nothing wrong. He noted that the crisis in the party caused serious damage to its structure forcing some of the lawmakers to defect to other parties.

Recall that Naija News reported that at least six lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) citing LP’s leadership crisis.

All the political parties have problems. They have one issue or the other. That of Labour Party, my party, is actually so bad, I would say. I would have thought that by now the major issues would have been resolved. But rather than having those at the helm of affairs of the parties, looking for ways to resolve the matter, rather they are driving the divide. And so it is unfortunate.

“For those that have left the party, I do not blame them. I mean, because we are politicians. And as such, we always want a home. And so if the home that you have built has fallen apart, not to no fault of yours, but some people who are so driven, who are so convinced that that’s the path they should take. I also belong to the Nenadi Usman’s group, or part of the party. Because I say so, and I belong to it, because that’s the group that is trying to bring resolution to the party,” he said.

The Edo South District Senator explained that the convention help in Abia State, under Governor Alex Otti was supposed to bring unity to the party.

The first-time Senator stressed that lack of unity caused the party to lose the local government election to the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in Abia State.

“We had a meeting in Abia, and every stakeholder of the party were invited to come to that stakeholder’s meeting. And some chose not to come at all. Because they are the chairman of the party, they are the one who has to call for a meeting, they are the one who makes decisions. No one else can do it. If anyone else chooses to do it, they will not expel you from the party, or they suspend you, and so on and so forth.

“Is that a way of bringing resolution? I don’t think so. I would have thought that everyone should come to that table that day, we all will sit and bring your representatives, to now form the committee, the caretaker committee, that will now run the party for a short period of time, and then call for elections.

“But, you know, some people have taken the highway, and so it left many of them with no option at all. We only have one governor in Abia State. We had a local government election and ZLP took it off. So what does that mean to the Labour Party? It means, Labour Party, you have no structure here, you have nothing here,” Imasuen added.

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