…For Gross Misconduct, Anti-Party Activities
…Recommends Disciplinary Action, Replacement Of Arabambi As Acting National Publicity Secretary
The Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has reaffirmed the membership of former presidential spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, and 11 other members, purportedly suspended by a faction of the party few days ago.
The party also suspended the state chairman, Mr. Michael Ashade, the state secretary, Mr Michael Feyisola; the acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Abayomi Olufemi Sunday, also known as Arabambi, from the LP for gross misconduct and anti-party activities
The party made these known in a press statement signed by the state deputy chairman and leader of the party in Ogun East, Chief Lookman Jagun; deputy chairman and. Ogun Central leader, Chief Ope Ijaola; acting Ogun West leader, Alhaji Taofeek Oloyede; and state Women Leader, Olori Bukola Soyoye, and made available to the media.
The statement said, “We, leaders and stakeholders of Labour Party in Ogun State, have suspended the
membership of Mr Michael Ashade, state chairman, Mr Michael Feyisola, state secretary, Mr Abayomi Olufemi Sunday,(Arabambi), acting National Publicity Secretary, from the
Labour Party for gross misconduct and anti-party activities.”
The decisions were taken after an emergency leadership and stakeholders’ meeting, held on Friday in Abeokuta, where the party decided to axe the affected officers for various offences, bothering on connivance with other parties, especially the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, government in the state to thwart the aspirations of Labour Party candidates in Ogun State, as well as their various gross public misconducts and anti-party activities.
The statement added “It will be recalled that the national secretariat of our great party under the leadership of Comrade (Barr) Julius Abure, through the National Secretary, Mallam Farouk Ibrahim, on
Tuesday handed a major query and caution to the acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Abayomi, for his public misconduct and incitement of a faction of the state
executives, led by Ashade and Feyisola against the national leadership of the
Labour Party and its Presidential Campaign Council, PCC.
“Moreover, Ashade, former state chairman was on Monday recalled from the state exco, alongside other executive members, who hailed from the Ogun West senatorial district by leaders and stakeholders of the party from the senatorial district for incompetence, thuggery and public misconduct, capable of bringing the popularity of the party into disrepute,
handling of the legal matters of Labour Party candidates in the state over the listing of Ogun State candidates for 2023 elections by INEC.
“We considered their recent vituperation and interventions as scenes from their theatre of the absurd and their last dance of the macabre by making such insensitive, uncouth and laughable announcements on severely faulted and faultable premises.
“We dissociate ourselves from and condemn their utterances and import in its entirety and declare it undemocratic, unreasonable, capable of threatening the peace and the democratic space of the country and of no substance and effect whatsoever.
“We hereby reaffirm and pass a vote of confidence on the Director General of the Obi Datti Campaign Organisation, Dr.
Doyin Okupe, as well as the 11 notable members of the party, who are purportedly
expunged, which include: Hon. Abayomi Collins, Hon. Abel Olaleye, Chief Jagun Lookman, Olori Oluwabukola Soyoye, State treasurer, Mr. Gbadebo Fesomade, and State youth Leader, Mr. Abdulmalik
Olaleye.
“Others are: state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Jide Amusan, Assistant State Youth Leader, Mr. Adeshina Wasiu Shojobi, (Assistant State Youth Leader), Ogun East Women Leader, Miss Deborah Adewale, and Assistant Secretary, Mr. Olatunde Abolade.”
Consequently the party, therefore, has directed both Ashade and Feyisola, former state Chairman and Secretary, respectively, and their cohorts to immediately hand over all party valuables and documents in their possession and make themselves available to a disciplinary panel that is recommended to be set up by the national leadership of the party, for causing the party international embarrassment.
The party added, “We also strongly recommend to the national leadership of the party the immediate replacement of Mr Abayomi as the acting National Publicity Secretary, to save the party from further embarrassment and crisis.”
The leadership of the party in Ogun State also requested the national leadership of the Labour Party to immediately direct Arabambi to hand over and hand off all matters in court on the listing of Labour Party candidates’ names for the 2023 elections to prevent electoral failure of the party in Ogun State, “as there are strong evidences that he and others in the state exco are working in cahoot with the ruling APC government in Ogun State to frustrate and thwart the efforts of the leadership of the Labour Party to have a formidable list of candidates in Ogun State.”
