A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, has warned the party’s leadership to be careful and operate within the limits of the constitution to avoid moles from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hijacking its affairs.
“But they have to know their priorities because there are a lot of moles in Labour Party now. I mean some angry persons from APC and PDP who want to continue the same attitude.
“We want different breeds and breath some fresh air because the air is polluted and we don’t want this polluted people to come and use their bag of money to pollute people, and when they start doing that they start choosing the wrong people, and as such not giving chances to the right people because there are so many right people like me.”
He advised the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, to let other duly appointed officials of the party to function well in their positions.
“National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, set up a 10-man Committee to head the Diaspora Committee and I also made the Committee and we have a Chairman, Divine, and I was made the Director for Nigerians in Diaspora but since this committee was set-up we have not been given free-hand to deliver on our mandate.
“Also, recently, they made amendment of a new list and they have 75 people that were selected again in Diaspora. If we were duly inaugurated we supposed to be in charge of the Diaspora and if you are going to inaugurate new people or bring in more people from the Diaspora on board we should have been contacted and part of it.
“Is like you giving me a title but you are not allowing me to run in that position of that title, and this is what has been killing Nigerians; it is not the title that made the job but the man that is on the job not the title,” he affirmed.
Going further, he stated: “I have tried to communicate this with the National Chairman of our party. We must do things in the right way and not the way APC and PDP have been doing in this country if really we are going to be in this movement because this is a movement, we are not using the Labour Party as vehicle to actualize it than to do it rightly.
“I have sent a message to him, and some times he doesn’t reply and also call him severally he won’t take them.
“I felt that I want to be useful to the society and party and that is why I said since I am not allowed to function I am going to resign from that position.”
He refuted the rumour making the rounds that he had resigned from the party, saying, “I am thinking of resigning but not yet, I am still in Labour Party. If they fail to reconcile this differences and yield to some of our advices that would make them win election then I am going to resign because I am here to win.
“I am not here for the name or title. It seems that so many of them are just here for the title and position and they are not really ready to win the election.”
He stated that even if he withdraws from the party he has a duty to fulfill which is to vote for the party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi as he sees him as the nucleus of the change Nigerians are clamouring for.
“That I am out of Labour Party does not mean I am going to APC or PDP. I would not do that. I remain in my lane and still play the role of a social crusader or activist,” he submitted.
