Labour Party (LP) has said that the decision of the Ogun state chapter to suspend its chieftain, Doyin Okupe, is null and void.
The party on Friday in Abuja through party’s national secretary, Umar Farouk, said the decision was unconstitutional.
Farouk disclosed that the Ogun state chapter of the party did not follow statutory tenets in carrying out the ouster of the director-general of the party’s presidential campaign council.
He revealed that the Labour Party has a policy and style of treating disputes within the party, and the Ogun state arm failed to utilise such modalities.
Farouk said: “Therefore the suspension of Dr Doyin Okupe from the Ogun State chapter is null and void. He still remains the card-carrying member of the Labour Party and the Director General of the Presidential campaign council.”
Meanwhile, Farouk reiterated that the party remains united while dismissing news making the rounds that there is friction in the party. He said the party would continue to support Okupe as he will continue to lead the party’s presidential campaign council.
Farouk said there was no time that the Ogun state arm or the subjects in the Ogun state chapter issued a formal complaint to the national leadership of the party “before issuing an unlawful suspension of the Labour Party chieftain.”
