Ex-Senate Minority Whip Nwokocha Emerges LP Caretaker Secretary

Former lawmaker and one-time Senate Minority Whip, Senator Darlington Nwokocha, has emerged as the Secretary of the 29-member National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party (LP).

Nwokocha’s appointment was announced by Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, after the party’s extended stakeholders meeting held at the Banquet Hall of the Abia State Government House on Wednesday in Umuahia, the state capital.

The 29-member LP National Caretaker Committee is chaired by Senator Nenadi Esther Usman, a former lawmaker too, who represented Kaduna South in the Nigerian Senate and one-time Minister of Finance.

Senator Nwokocha, who represented Abia Central Senatorial District, was elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election.

Nwokocha was later elected the Minority Whip/Principal Officer of the 10th Senate and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on NDDC, but left the Senate after six months of outstanding representation following the decision of the Appeal Court on the outcome of the election.

The new LP Caretaker Secretary had previously served for eight successive years in the House of Representatives, from 2015 to 2023 as the member representing Isiala Ngwa North/Isiala Ngwa South federal constituency of Abia State.

He served as chairman, House Committee on Insurance and Actuarial Matters and was also the Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Federal Character Commission (FCC).

Nwokocha also served as Chairman of the Adhoc Committee on Niger-Delta Power Holding Limited; Adhoc Committee on Pipelines Explosion/Fire Outbreak in Rivers State and Chairman of the Adhoc Committee on Failure of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), all in the House of Representatives.

Prior his election to the House of Representatives, Nwokocha also represented Isiala Ngwa South Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly for eight years from 2007 to 2015.