Turmoil Deepens In LP As Ogun Chapter Moves To Expel Chieftains

The state chairman of Ogun State, Michael Ashade, and six other individuals have been recommended for expulsion by the Labour Party (LP), together with Abayomi Arabambi, a former acting national publicity secretary.

Feyisayo Michael, Tosin Meadows, Seun Ogunyemi, and Lizzy Oliseh-Samuel, the state secretaries, state organizing secretaries, state auditors, and state financial secretaries, respectively, of the Labour Party, are additional individuals who have been proposed for expulsion.

It is believed that Tokunbo Peters, the party’s state publicity secretary, released a press release to announce the recommendation.

Peters disclosed that the recommendation became necessary following various alleged anti-party activities carried out by eight executive members of the party adding that the recommendation has been forwarded to the national secretariat of the LP last week.

According to him, Arabambi and Ashade were recently suspended by the executive members of their wards and local government areas and were later recommended for expulsion from the party.

Peters said, “Their suspension and recommendation for expulsion, which was communicated formally to the national secretariat of the party last week, was premised on various anti-party activities engaged in by Messers Abayomi Arabambi, Michael Ashade and their cohorts to destabilise, factionalise and bring the party into disrepute, acting as sponsored agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

“The statement further disclosed that before their eventual suspension, several warnings and cautions were given to make them refrain from their anti-party activities, especially through a peace and reconciliatory meeting, which was mediated by a frontline elder statesman.

“But rather than turn a new leaf, Arabambi and his cohorts became more recalcitrant and belligerent to satisfy their paymasters in the ruling APC.

“The party admonished the Inter Party Advisory Council in Ogun State to desist from relating with Michael Ashade and his cohorts, as they no longer hold any executive positions in the Labour Party.”