LP Suspends Salvador, Salako, Others Over Anti-Party Activities

Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has suspended its former chairman, Mr. Olukayode Salako, Hon. Moshood Salvador and four others for anti- party activities.

The party also passed a vote of confidence on its national chairman Barrister Julius Abure and said it is standing by the ruling of the court in Benin, Edo State, which recognised Abure and members of the national executives of the party as the substantive leaders of the party.

The party rejected the high court ruling in Abuja, which ruled that Abure and five members of the National Executive  Committee (NEC) should stop parading themselves as the executive of the party, in a suit filed by Barrister  James Onoja.

Briefing journalists in Lagos, the party secretary, Mr. Sam Okpala, said members of the party accused of anti-party activities were summoned to a meeting in line with Article 19 of the party constitution to defend themselves of the allegation against them, but they could not exonerate themselves of the allegation levelled against them.

Okpala added that they were placed on indefinite suspension because the party cannot harbour those whose being in the party is inimical to growth of the party.

He said of those accused it was only one of them,  Sunbo Onitiri that told the party she has resigned her membership of the party.

Others suspended are Opeyemi Taiwo, Mutiu Okunola and Theodore Ezumuanu.