Labour Party disowns Lawmaker-elect, Amobi Ogah for calling Tinubu his President

Labour Party disowns Lawmaker-elect, Amobi Ogah for calling Tinubu his President

 

Hon. Amobi Ogah, a member-elect of the House of Representatives, has been disowned by the Labour Party (LP) leadership because of remarks he made praising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

 

Obiora Ifoh, the acting national publicity secretary of the LP, stated in a statement on Friday that Ogah’s assessment of President Tinubu’s leadership is his own and not the party’s.

Ogah had expressed joy during a meeting with Tinubu regarding the 10th National Assembly’s leadership, stating he had no idea Tinubu was so bright.

“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,” he said.

“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.”

 

But in his statement, the Labour Party spokesman 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.”

 

According to him, while LP has nothing against the personality of President Tinubu, however, the party is challenging both the process and final outcome of the presidential election.

 

He said, “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.”