LP Lawmaker Delivers ‘Sad News’ To Colleagues Who Defected To APC

The Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, George Ibezimako Ozodinobi (LP, Anambra), has criticized his colleagues for defecting from the Labour Party (LP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

On Thursday, four members of the LP – Chinedu Okere (Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West Constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura Federal Constituency, Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Constituency), and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo Federal Constituency, Edo) – officially left the party.

In a letter read by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen during plenary, the defectors cited internal conflicts within the Labour Party – which secured approximately six million votes in last year’s presidential election – as the reason for their defection.

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However, following the reading of the defection letter, Ozodinobi took the floor of the Green Chamber to express his disappointment in his colleagues who had abandoned the LP.

“I will quote the Bible. When Jesus was carrying the cross to the Calvary, the woman, Veronica, was weeping. And he looked back and said, women of Israel, don’t weep for me, weep for yourself,” the lawmaker said.

“I am telling those who have defected that they will continue weeping for themselves because where you have crossed over to, you don’t have a future”.

Following their defection, the Labour Party expressed disappointment at their decision.

The spokesman of the party  Obiora Ifoh said their defection was “quite unfortunate and we condemn the action which is irrational, untenable, inconsistent and alien to all known norms for which democracy stands for”.

“Though the Labour Party leadership is undaunted by the defection, it has however, elected not to allow it slide and has therefore instructed its legal team to commence the legal actions against the defectors and to also commence the process of regaining our mandates in line with the 1999 constitution and 2022 Electoral Act as amended,” the LP spokesman said in a statement.

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