The Labour Party, LP, National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, has stated that appointment of her committee as caretake of the Labour Party, save the party from de-registration.
Recall that the former Minister of Finance and Senator from Kaduna State was on September 4, at a Stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, appointed Chairman Caretaker Committee of Labour Party.
Speaking on her appointment, Senator Usman said the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) might have de-registered the party for the intervention of the appointment.
She disclosed this to journalists after the inaugural meeting of the committee in Abuja, on Thursday.
Senator Usman, therefore, promised to operate an open door policy and carry all members along.
She said, “On September 4, at Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, no team, group or divide of our party’s various episodes of conflict was vanquished. Everyone won. Therefore, no group or divide should feel any sense of shame or defeat.
“We won together as one political family by the reality of the law. We escaped together the sword of INEC which would have otherwise taken our beloved party out of its books. For having no legally acceptable leadership that meets the requirements of our country’s Electoral Act.
“The legacy I desire to be remembered for is that I met a Labour Party in relative conflict and disunity. But left it a united, formidable and indomitable elections winning party nationwide.”
The Caretaker Chairman, therefore, called on those who are aggrieved to shelve their sword and join hands with her committee.
She said to them, “Come forward and let us reason together on my committee’s supreme mandate. This is the mandate to deliver to our party, in about three months, exemplary unifying state congresses nationwide.
“This will climax in a transparent all-inclusive national convention which will produce the next substantive NEC and NWC of our party. And subsequently the next leadership of our great country.”
Usman noted that the situation in the party was dicey. She said “We could have left the Commission with no alternative but to deregister our party from their portals. And excluded us from all elections. That course of action was successfully averted on September 4, at Umuahia.”
Speaking in the same light, the acting Chairman NLC Political Commission, Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku, called on members to shelve their differences. He urged them to join hands with the committee to move the party forward.
source: Daily Trust
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