Benue: Labour Party condemns Philip Agbese’s attempted leadership takeover

The Benue State section of the Labour Party, LP, has formally distanced itself from the purported defection of Philip Agbese, describing the assertion arsenic “misleading, illegal, and unconstitutional,” portion besides rejecting the reported assignment of his aide, Williams Ochonu, arsenic interim chairman.

The contention follows wide reports that Agbese had defected to the Labour Party and that his media aide, Ochonu, had been named to pb an interim operation successful the state, a improvement that has present stirred what enactment insiders picture arsenic a “hornet’s nest” wrong the Benue LP.

In a powerfully worded connection signed by the State Chairman, Amb. Emmanuel Agida, and Secretary, Comrade Matthew Buter, the enactment insisted that nary specified defection had been officially recognized.

“The caller quality claiming that Hon. Philip Agbese has defected to the Labour Party is, astatine best, misleading,” the connection read.

The enactment enactment maintained that it remains nether the duly elected enforcement led by Agida, stressing that immoderate assertion suggesting a enactment alteration is “false, null, ...