As more mixed reactions continued to trail the Tuesday defection of the senator representing Delta Central senatorial District in the upper legislature, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from the Labour Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Labour Party (LP) has accused senator Omo-Agege of been behind the crisis rocking the party.
Reacting to Senator Omo-Agege’s defection, Labour Party’s National Public Secretary, Ebere Ifendu, told newsmen on Tuesday at the party national secretariat that the claim of division within the party by Omo-Agege was a figment of his own imagination that does not exist, saying that the party had earlier alerted the public that Omo-Agege was responsible for the breach of peace experienced at the party national secretariat last week where some persons protested against the national chairman, Abdukardir Abdulsalam.
While insisting that there was no faction whatsoever in the Labour Party as claimed by Omo-Agege, the party spokes person made it clear that the party would challenge his decision in the court of law.
“As a party we will challenge his decision to steal the mandate of the Labour Party through the back door in Court. We hereby request the Senate President to declare his seat vacant and that INEC should immediately organise election within the next sixty days to fill the vacant seat as required by the law section 68 (1) and 190 of electoral law.
“It is most unfortunate that a person that is expected to be distinguished will go this far in order to subvert the will of the people through the sponsorship of thugs so he could carry out his illegal act of decamping” the party stated.
The party while also urging the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, to immediately declare Senator Omo-Agege’s seat vacant it called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately organise election within the next sixty days to fill the vacant seat created by senator Omo-Agege as required by law.
