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LP suspends Kenneth Okonkwo, 11 others for anti-party activities

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LP suspends Kenneth Okonkwo, 11 others for anti-party activities

The Lamidi Apapa led-Labour Party, LP, faction has suspended 12 members for alleged anti-party activities.

Among those suspended is veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, who was one of the spokespersons for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council. He resigned his membership from the All Progressive Congress (APC) before the presidential elections.

Also suspended is the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifo, who is also a strong supporter of Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the party in the last election.

Their suspension was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting yesterday in Bauchi State.

The communiqué reads: “That the NEC in session also considers the action of 12 of its members namely – Obiora Ifo, Kenneth Okonkwo, Mrs. Adebayo Ekong, Com. P.G. Igene, Adeola Adebanjo, Funke Awolowo, Sam Okpala, Folusho considers Olakemi, Olubunmi Adesanya, Lanre Adenuga, and Olatubosun Oswald – for their anti-party activities and unruly behavior against the party leadership, which include issuing statements without the authority of the party.

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“The NEC in session, therefore, suspends them from the party. It also suspends all the National Working Committee (NWC) members and state chairmen and secretaries over contempt of the FCT High Court restraining order who participated the illegal NEC meeting convened by Barr Julius Abure on April 18, in Asaba, Delta State, and recommends them for disciplinary action, and investigation for fraudulent and anti-party activities over their conduct of the April 15 governorship primaries in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states, directed by Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim, parading themselves as National Chairman and National Secretary. They are Prince Kenedy Ahanotu, Mrs. Ladi Illiya, Dr. Ayo Olorunfemi, Chief Innocent Agumba, and Mrs. Dudu Manuga, being the state chairmen and secretaries who attended that illegal NEC meeting.

“The NEC also examined the anti-party activities of some of its members and resolved that the faction reaffirms and uphold the decision of the Ogun State executives which earlier expelled some members over their failure to pay membership dues for over six months.

The affected members are Mr. Kehinde Shogunle, Engr. Akinpelu Shogunle, Engr. Lukmon Jagun Abiodun, Mr. Tokunbo Peters, Bukola Shoyooye, Barr. Oluwafemi Ibiayo, Feson Gbadebo, Dayo Folarin, Adeshina Shojobi, Bamjoko Ajekpe, Tunde Taiwo and Olatunde Abolade.

Others are Abosede Lamidi, Malik Olaleye, Adesegun Banmodu and Rev. Olufolabi Adebayo.

LP suspends Kenneth Okonkwo, 11 other for anti-party activities

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Aregbesola no longer member of APC, says ex-Osun commissioner

The immediate past Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Adebayo Adeleke, has said ex-Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, is not a member of the All Progressives Congress.

Adeleke served as a commissioner in the cabinet of ex-governor Adegboyega Oyetola, currently serving as the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.

He spoke at the Osun Central Senatorial meeting of the APC held in Osogbo, Osun State capital.

The APC chieftain said all serious party members in the state were aware that Aregbesola was not currently a member of the party.

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Speaking at the meeting attended by the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, and other party bigwigs from the ten local government areas that made up the senatorial district, Adeleke insisted that the two ex-governors in Osun APC are Chief Bisi Akande and Oyetola.

Adeleke said, “They said in our party in Osun, we have two former governors, we have Chief Bisi Akande and ex-governor, Adegboyega Oyetola.

“Someone asked about ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola, and my response is that all members of the APC know that Aregbesola presently is not a member of our party.”

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Danjuma Goje, senator representing Gombe Central, and Sahabi Yau, senator representing Zamfara North, expressed displeasure over the seats assigned to them.

They complained to Opeyemi Bamidele, the majority leader.

The Senate is currently using its refurbished chamber, two years after renovation began on it.

According to the standing rules of the upper legislative chamber, senators should sit in order of rank.

The Easter and Sallah recess was postponed to accommodate the completion of the renovation of both chambers of the national assembly.

However, while Senate President Godswill Akpabio read his welcome address, the heated argument among the three senators began.

It was learnt that Goje and Yau, sitting on the second row on the right side of the aisle, did not like the seats allocated to them by the senate committee on services.

Sunday Karimi, senator representing Kogi west, is chair of the senate services committee.

The four-term senators subsequently insisted that they should have been assigned seats on the front row on the extreme right — opposite the row of the majority leader and the deputy senate president.

After the argument, Kawu Sumaila, senator representing Kano South, called for a “point of order” which was ignored.

Thereafter, Bamidele moved a motion for a closed-session.

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National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, says members of the opposition are trying to discredit the Bola Tinubu-led administration in their desperation for Aso Rock in 2027.
He however declares that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2027.

Ganduje said the administration of President Tinubu had been contending with accumulation of many years of neglect, policy summersaults and other disjointed decisions by previous administrations.

The APC national chairman gave the position while addressing supporters and support groups at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

Ganduje urged the APC supporters and groups to be committed to the party so that it could continue to forge ahead.

He said the leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and its chieftains were afraid, having been defeated in the last general election and already foreseeing another defeat.

Ganduje said the NNPP elements were now engaged in a propaganda campaign against the leadership of APC.

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“They are already eyeing 2027, but at that time, there is no vacancy. Only our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will, Insha Allah, continue as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Ganduje claimed the leadership of NNPP and its chieftains in Kano State were sponsoring protests and campaigning for his removal as APC national chairman.

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