LP Suspends National Treasurer Opara for Six Months Amid Call for Probe of N3.5 Billion Party Funds
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party (LP) has suspended the party’s National Treasurer Oluchi Opara for asking the National Chairman, Julius Abure, to account for N3.5 billion party funds.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary Obiora Ifoh announced this while addressing reporters at the LP secretariat yesterday in Abuja.
Opara had, on Monday, asked Abure to account for the N3.5 billion raised from the sale of nomination forms and fundraising activities in the build-up to last year’s general election.
Ifoh alleged that the decision to sanction Opara was taken after she failed to honour an invitation on Tuesday by the party’s NWC to resolve the conflict.
He said: “After the 2023 general election, Labour Party was marked for total annihilation by the system for daring to upstage the status quo of the political class. Little did we know that the fumigation was far from complete until late last year when signs emanated that our National Treasurer, Ms. Oluchi Opara, a key member of the executive, turned out to be a mole in the house and has continued networking with the expelled members of the party leadership.
