Labour Party-faction To Convene NEC Meeting, Recommend Peter Obi's Expulsion

 Abayomi Arabambi, the factional national publicity secretary of the Labour Party, has disclosed that Peter Obi, the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, will soon be expelled for engaging in anti-party activities.

The Labour Party under Barrister Julius Abure as National Chairman and Alhaji Farouk Umar Ibrahim as National Secretary. Probably, maybe the people you are referring to are those group of Nenadi Usman whom Peter Obi has graciously appointed as their New Yam festival Committee because we do not have even in our Party Constitution and with INEC anything like Caretaker. And also, Section 222 of the Constitution is also very clear that political parties shall not be headed by any Caretaker - they must be duly elected, so our Constitution is in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, so we do not have group.

Secondly, let me make it clear, we are convening a NEC meeting where he (Peter Obi) will be expelled. You know he was on suspension before he went ahead to do his anti-party activities. You don't go and join a political party and at the same time, you go and put your leg in another political party. He knows it is unconstitutional for him to belong to two political parties. They have been able to deceive him to their side and there he shall remain.

So, a NEC meeting will be called shortly where Obi will now be recommended for expulsion and that will now be confirmed at the Presidential Convention, in line with our Constitution and in line with most political parties' Constitution that when you want to expel any individual who is a member of your Party but that is not doing things in tandem with your Constitution, you go to NEC and expel him and confirm the final expulsion at the Convention. So, Obi will be expelled from our Party, he is no more a member of our Party. It is not within his rights to tell us "Oh I am a member of Labour Party" and he will now be hobnobbing with what we call the "Yahoo yahoo" coalition. We are not going to accept that.

Arabambi at today's ChannelsTV Morning Brief