Abure rejects Otti’s 29-man reconciliation panel

The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, yesterday convened a stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahia the state capital with the aim of resolving the lingering leadership crisis in the party.

The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Umar Farouk, and the National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu, were conspicuously absent from the meeting.

However, Otti, Obi, his running mate, Datti Ahmed and the senator representing Anambra Central senatorial zone, Victor Umeh, were among the stakeholders present at the meeting.

According to a communique issued at the end of the meeting and read by a member of the party, Pwajok Edward, the stakeholders set up a 29-member caretaker committee to resolve the crisis within the party.

The communique added that the committee, headed by Nenadi Usman as chairman, and Senator Darlington Nwaokecha as Secretary, was given 90 days to resolve the crisis in the party.