By Obiora Ifoh
The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to an unsigned Press Conference purportedly by one Nenadi Usman and her cohorts which talked about the invasion of the Labour Party’s national headquarters as well as a case of forgery and so on. We need to state very clearly, that the tone of the press conference was not only fallacious and laughable but one that must be dismissed with a wave of hand.
We ordinarily will not want to dignify them with a response but because Senator Nenadi and her cohorts by their narration as to how they gained access into the national headquarters of the party at about 1am on Tuesday morning and what played out has already indicted themselves and has also shown that they are the culprit. We would not need to look further for the culprits that broke into the Secretariat.
For re-emphasis, we have already told the whole world how about 1am on that fateful Tuesday, February 10, how some persons scaled the fence to pull down the party’s billboard and illegally erected billboards belonging to Ms Usman. Nenadi Usman made a grand entrance shortly before noon with full police protection. Videos of how they broke into various offices including that of the National Chairman are already in circulation.
Key questions to ask Nenadi Usman is how did they get access into the office? This is because at all the material times till the time they invaded the office, the party was under the control of Barrister Julius Abure, the offices were under his control and we had all the keys to the offices. When they entered the office, who gave them access to the offices. Was there a formal handover from Abure to Nenadi? Who handed over the keys to them, to access the offices that gave them the opportunity to value what was in the office? How did they know what was there and what was removed?
For instance, the chairman’s key was with the chairman, how did they get access to the chairman’s office as to determine what was and what was not in his office. Did the judgement of the lower court, a finality when there are other steps to take? Why did they need Police protection to commit the illegality? Is it not clear that Nenadi and her cohorts were the actual culprit here.
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As far as we know, we did not hand over the Secretariat to Nenadi Usman and there was actually no need for that because there was a judicial proceedings ongoing and until the final determination of the matter at the appellate courts, he can not claim to be the rightful possessor of the office. We have since stayed the execution of the judgement of the lower court, appealed the judgement because we believe that justice was denied us at the lower court.
We are aware of the looting going on at the party Secretariat presently but as we said, we will lay charges at the appropriate time. Nenadi Usman is being clever by half but the long arms of law will soon catch up with her and the other renegades.
Nonetheless, we will soon address a press conference in response to all the filthy and baseless allegations leveled against some of our party leaders. We will address the issue of the Letter by the Attorney General, show a recent police report, and forensic analysis which absorbed everybody named in the said letter.
We are therefore calling on the members of the public to disregard the content of that Press Conference as it was ill advised, done in bad faith and was also an attempt to portray the leadership of the party in bad light.
Ifoh is the
National Publicity Secretary of
Labour Party
