Adamawa Labour Party crisis deepens as faction rejects chairman’s suspension

Crisis successful the Adamawa State section of the Labour Party (LP) has deepened, with rival factions present openly challenging each different implicit the enactment of the party.

The crisis, which came to a caput connected Wednesday, August 5, aft reports emerged that the authorities president of the party, Jonah Theman Kalpenge, had been suspended, took different crook connected Thursday erstwhile executives opposed to the determination rejected the suspension.

In the latest development, executives loyal to the president described the purported suspension arsenic unconstitutional and of nary effect.

At a gathering attended by authorities and section authorities executives successful Yola, the enactment leaders insisted that the suspension was “drama and child’s play” and reiterated that the process violated the provisions of the party’s constitution.

The executives resolved to represent a five-member disciplinary committee to analyse the behaviour of members who participated successful the “unlawful” gathering that led to the purported suspension.

The committee is chaired by Dauda Peter, with Yahuza Kabiru, Hauwa Musa, Sarah Sunday and Moses Gaji serving arsenic members.

The committee was directed to invitation the affected members—Kamalludeen Jibrilla Aliyu, Suleiman Abdulkareem, Andrew Adamu, Abubakar Aliyu and Tufanus Daniel—to look earlier it astatine the par...