•••No, Anambra couldn’t have sealed LP office- Commissioner
Kamsi Anayo, Awka
The Labour Party (LP) in Anambra state has decried the sealing off of its state party office in Awka by the state government.
Chief C.J. Okoli Akirika, Secretary of the LP in the state told our Correspondent that the action was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday without notice, warning, or any form of engagement with the party.
He said the Anambra state government agents, accompanied by men dressed in military uniforms, stormed the LP state office in a commando-like operation, and chased away the staff and sealed the office.
“It is rather unfortunate, bizarre, and brazen that the Anambra state government, which is fruitlessly seeking to truncate statutorily emplaced procedures to select Local Government Chairmen and councillors in the deviously convoluted LG election, is mindlessly resorting to underhand, illegal, and obnoxious intimidation.
“While appealing to the teeming Labour Party members, supporters, sympathisers, stakeholders, and Anambra people in general, the state leadership of our great Labour Party shall, as law-abiding Anambrarians, have recourse to due process to contain and checkmate this unprovoked and untrammeled illegality,” he said.
But, the State Commissioner for Information, Chief Paul Nwosu debunked the claim, saying that the state government couldn’t have sealed the Labour Party office.
Nwosu, further said: “He was not aware of it, and why would government seal labour party office.
“No, I am not aware of it, I just came out of a briefing by the state government, there was nothing said to that effect.
“Why would the state government seal labour party office, we did not, we couldn’t not have sealed labour office, not when Anambra state that was the first to set up a labour friendly committee.
“It is incongruous and unthinkable that Anambra state will go and seal labour office, what for,” he said.
