Labour Party raises truce committee with National Assembly members

The Labour Party’s national leadership has set up a three-man Intervention and Truce Committee to improve the relationship between the party and its members in the National Assembly.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Obiora Ifoh, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the establishment of the committee was part of the ongoing efforts to engender an enduring harmony in the party.

He added that the committee is headed by Ben Etanabene, with Mathew Nworgu and Chinedu Obika as members.

The LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, inaugurated the committee at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja on Monday.

Abure urged the committee to liaise with the LP legislators in both chambers of the National Assembly to identify and resolve all differences between them and the party.

He said: “We entrust you with this important assignment of bringing together all our members in the National Assembly, both in the Senate and House of Representatives.

“This is to bridge the gaps and resolve all issues that may have existed.

“There is need for all our members, about 40 of you, to be on the same page with the party leadership.

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“You are our ambassadors at the national assembly, and we are proud of some of you and the values you have exhibited.

“But we think there are still some gaps that needed to be plugged, hence the urgency for this assignment.

He said that the party expected that within two weeks, the committee would have concluded its assignment and reported to the leadership of the party.

Some LP members in the National Assembly had recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The most notable was the defection of four LP legislators in the House of Representatives in one sitting, with all of them citing the crisis in the party for their defections.

They were: Chinedu Okere (Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West); Mathew Donatus (Kaura); Akiba Bassey (Calabar Municipal/Odukpani); and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo).

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