Clement Ojukwu backs Senator Usman-led Labour Party, urging reconciliation and withdrawal of litigations to strengthen the party
Former National Organising Secretary of the Labour Party, Chief Clement Ojukwu, has expressed regret over ongoing litigations that he says have weakened the party’s fortunes since the 2023 general elections.
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Speaking in an interview in Abuja, Clement Ojukwu pledged allegiance to the Senator Nenadi Usman-led leadership, moving away from his previous alignment with erstwhile National Chairman Julius Abure.
Ojukwu lamented that while the Labour Party had produced 34 House of Representatives members, eight Senators, and 80 members of state Houses of Assembly in 2023, “now we lost all of them. I don’t think we have up to five members in the National Assembly.”
He appealed to aggrieved party members to set aside differences and support the new leadership.
“Litigations are killing political parties. We have seen many political parties that are no more because of litigations, and LP is going down on a daily basis. I decided, for the interest of the party, to join hands with the caretaker committee to redeem the LP,” Ojukwu said.
He called on Julius Abure and former National Working Committee members to withdraw pending cases to allow for genuine reconciliation.
The former scribe stressed the urgency of uniting the party ahead of upcoming elections.
“Another election is around the corner. We lost everything we have. They have left to other political parties. So, I will call all my colleagues in the other faction to come together and rebuild this party. The caretaker committee has created a reconciliation committee, let us dialogue so that we can redeem the first opposition political party in Nigeria.”
Addressing claims of internal factions, Clement Ojukwu said, “There is a verdict from court, and since they are valid and the rightful people are on the seat, factions no longer exist.”
He also denied accusations that his alignment with the Senator Usman-led NWC was a betrayal of the Abure group.
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“Why I am with this group is because of the verdict. But I never betrayed anybody. Rather, I was betrayed,” he said.
