INEC Says I am Chairman, My Opponents are Sponsored by IPOB Leaders – Abdulsalam

The incumbent Chairman of the Labour Party, Abdulkadir abdulsalam says INEC has confirmed him as the National Chairman of the Party, by saying that the Status quo be maintained

Some of the National Executive Committee had “a special convention”,  where it removed the National Chairman, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, and replaced him with Dr. Tayo Omotosho.

However, our Journalists investigated from INEC what the Status quo was,  and the officers recognised by INEC as at 24/10/2017 are as follows:

National Chairman – Alh. Abdukadir Abdulsalam (Baraden Paiko)

National Secretary – Julius Aburi (Acting)

National Treasurer – Mrs. Oluchi Operah

National Financial Secretary – Hajiya Hadiza Kishimi

National Legal Adviser – Barr. Akingbade Oyelekan

According to Alh. Abdulsalam, “When the leadership of the party heard of the planned illegality of this group, we wrote to INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) in a letter dated September 12 and received on September 13. “We stated that our party’s constitution provided that the National Secretary shall cause to be issued a notice of meetings of the National Convention, National Executive Committee (NEC) and the National Working Committee (NWC) in consultation with and approval of the National Chairman as contained in Article 15(4)(b) 2014 constitution of our party”.

Very scaring however, is the allegation by Alh. Salam that Calistus Okafor, the Convention Chairman of the conference that removed him, and Ebere Ifendu, the Publicity Secretary of the group, are IPOB leaders and Operatives who are using Labour Party as a cover to perpetrate their Secessionist agenda,

According to  Alh. Abdulsalam, IPOB sponsors and Conspirators are being hunted by Security agents in the Country, and he would not allow the IPOB sponsors to implicate him.

He gave an instance of the illegal meeting held on  20/10/2017, in an hotel in Festac, where almost all of those who attended were IPOB members, Superintended by Calistus Okafor and Sam Okpala, another IPOB Sponsor, who is not a member of Labour Party but Calistus Okafor pushed him forward as the Lagos Labour Party Chairman.

On the allegation of Fraud,  Alh. Abdulsalam said, “those people are Jesters and Clowns. Labour Party has no Governor, the only Senator has decamped,  so where is the billions coming from? All along I have personally been struggling to bear the responsibility of Party Rents, Salaries and  Various Expenses”.