Comments made by a Labour party House of Representatives members-elect, Hon. Amobi Ogah about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been disowned by the party.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with
Tinubu, Ogah had said that the President is intelligent and ready to tackle the
issues bedevilling the country.
"Today is my best day. Today, I’m so
happy that I’m an elected member seeing my president talking. In fact, I’ve
never known that this man is so intelligent.
“I never knew that this man is so prepared to
serve this country. I saw the love, character, and charisma — the belief that
Nigeria can be a better nation. So I’m so glad that the meeting we had today is
going to take us a little bit to a more stabilised house. Now, even without
talking to us again, we have agreed that we are going towards the government’s
decision. he said
However, the acting national publicity
secretary of the Labour party, Obiora Ifoh, stated that Ogah’s position on
President Tinubu’s leadership is his personal opinion and not that of the
party. Ifoh also said that the
Reps-elect now regrets his action and has apologized to the party.
He said;
“Though as a first time and newly elected
lawmaker, the member-elect made the utterance which is clearly within his
rights as an individual as enshrined in the laws of the land however, the party
has a view quite different from what the honourable member was quoted to have
said.
“As an individual, he does not have the
mandate to speak for the party and therefore cannot claim to be standing on the
platform of the LP to do same, giving views that are diametrically opposed to
what LP stands for.
“Labour Party is presently in the tribunal
hoping to retrieve our mandate which was expressively given to our presidential
candidate on the February 25, and every testament emanating from the tribunal
points to the fact that Labour Party clearly won the election but was robbed.
We have remained resolute to our belief that justice will be done and so soon.
“We as a party insist that the route to His
Excellency must be excellent and anything other than that amounts to a mockery
of democracy.
“We urge millions of our party members who
are offended by Hon Ogah’s interview which has since gone viral to maintain
their cool as the lawmaker has regretted his actions and has tendered
unreserved apologies to the party.”
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