Edo State Labour Party (LP) leadership has suspended Francis Ohilebo as the party’s coordinator in Owan East Local Government Area over alleged “fraudulent activities deliberately orchestrated to destabilise the party in the Local Government”.
Gatekeepers News reports that one of the Party officials in the state alleged that Ohilebo conspired with some members in hiring protesters who stormed the State Labour Party Secretariat in Benin a few weeks ago.
The Edo Labour Party claimed that Ohilebo and Job Ozemoje collected money from their former political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), to destabilise the party and the ‘Obi-dient’ movement in the Local Government.
“Their exit from the Labour Party will serve as deterrent to seasoned and jobless politicians who think it’s business as usual by positioning themselves to exploit candidates before they are elected into political offices.
“Mr Peter Obi’s and Labour Party’s style, strategy and tradition is in contrast with characters who viewed our rescue Nigeria mission as a platform to enrich themselves”, the party official said.
“We will not fold our hands and allow jobless charlatans to derail the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi and our candidates in the coming elections and they should be told that no renegades can stop the Obi-dient moving train”.
Gatekeepers News sources at the party Secretariat confirmed that Ohilebo was suspended indefinitely from the party while Job and his co-travellers have been expelled from the party.
