Alleged defection of 21 local government party chairs to the APC is refuted by the Kogi Labour Party

Rumours circulating that 21 of the Labour Party’s local government chairmen had defected to the All Progressives Congress, the state’s ruling party, have been refuted by the Labour Party of Kogi State.

The State Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Idakwo Emmanuel, spoke to reporters at the Labour Party State Secretariat in Lokoja on Friday. He claimed that the rumour was false and that the APC was acting desperately by spreading it.

He emphasised how reprehensible and sadly lugubrious the degree of democracy of the ruling party is.

He asserts that “the Labour Party’s campaign flag-off in Kogi State, with Mr. Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate and national leader, as well as the National Chairman Julius Abure and other NWC members in attendance, has placed the ruling party in a pitiable depressing, and this fake news is nothing different from the last struggle of a dying horse.”

As unidentified and untraceable individuals are now sponsored by the ruling party to fool the populace under the guise of being Labour Party local government chairmen, it is obvious that the silent slides of the opposition party in Kogi State are loud and alarming to them.

“I hereby declare without reservation that the Labour Party’s organisational structure is sound and actively working to save our beloved state, and our movement as a party is organic with sincere supporters and members,” the statement continues.

He argued that anyone who does not have a party membership card or an appointment letter proving their appointment as a position holder in the Labour Party should be rejected by the media and audience.