Politics Labour Party National Chairman, Deputy Sacked for Embezzlement

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The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party has sacked the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam after an emergency meeting held in Abuja.

NEC also suspended and removed from office Mr. Calistus Okafor, (deputy national chairman-South) and Mr. Julius Abure (acting national secretary), pending the outcome of an investigation into the allegations against them.

This is after some members of the NEC and secretariat staff of the party marched with other protesters numbering 50 marched INEC and EFCC headquarters to submit a petition to them.

Labour Party National Youth Leader, Mr. Andrew Ukpebitere, at the entrance to the EFCC premises said the protest became necessary following non-payment of staff salaries for two years salaries.

The NEC alleged that, “in reckless violation of the EFCC Act and other anti-corruption laws of our nation, Abdulsalam brazenly misappropriated and diverted our party’s funds (running into hundreds of millions of naira) into an Ecobank account, with number 0122005427, of his private company, Salsan Nigeria limited.

“The NEC, therefore, appoints Mr. Bobo Atare Adou (national vice chairman-South South) and Mr. Akingbade Oyelekan as acting national chairman and Acting National Secretary of the party, respectively.

When contacted, Abdulsalam said “only a National Convention, called by the national chairman can either suspend or remove” him.
 

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