LP crisis: APC moles have taken over INC, scribe cries out

…As destiny of congresses, normal hangs successful the balance
By John Alechenu
Abuja – Labour Party’s Interim National Committee (INC) nether the enactment of Senators Nenadi Usman and Darlington Nwochocha, has sounded the alarm implicit an alleged effort by supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to instrumentality implicit its structure.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Toni Akeni, made the assertion successful a leaked memo, expressing vexation with the existent authorities of the enactment and threatening to discontinue if things don’t improve.

Specifically, Akeni alleged that an unnamed APC “mole” wrong LP’s ranks had convinced the INC not to money the party’s publicity directorate.

The party’s spokesperson arsenic expressed frustrations that the party’s interim enactment has failed to behaviour ward, Local Government, State and Zonal congresses arsenic good arsenic a nationalist convention, much than 1 twelvemonth aft it was fixed a 90-day mandate to bash so.

The interior memo dated October 9th, 2025, titled: “Pre-resignation Memo”, was addressed to the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) and the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), work successful part:

“Dear Council & Trustees,
Protest Against Working Conditions As Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Derailment of Labour Party Congresses and National Convention Activities Timeline.

“In presumption of the information that you whitethorn beryllium time-pressed and incapable to instantly work done this afloat document, I supply beneath for your instant attraction a compressed mentation of the document.

“The duty fixed to the iNWC of our enactment to behaviour nationwide authorities congresses and all-inclusive nationalist normal commenced aft its inauguration astatine Umuahia connected September 4, 2024.

“Less than 2 years to the 2027 wide elections, alternatively of the 3 months (90 days) archetypal clip framework fixed to the moving committee, the workout has present spanned 445 days, respective months much than a afloat year.

“Yet rank registration and revalidation, which are compulsory antes to the congresses and convention, are not adjacent to commencement, overmuch little decision successful the foreseeable time.

“As the interim National Publicity Secretary (iNPS) of Labour Party, I was compelled to relocate to Abuja from my Edo authorities household abode and abode of occupational livelihood connected August 7, 2025.

“ I person since past been carrying retired each assignments of the bureau from edifice accommodation without a penny from the Labour Party oregon its stakeholders but a azygous #10,000 token for information shared to maine by Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku connected September 27, 2025.

“The zero fund assertion and insistence of an unnamed iNWC subordinate pertaining to the bureau of the National Publicity Secretary raises precise disturbing questions and implications against my continued and effectual functioning of the duties, responsibilities and expectations of the office. These see the following:

“The Nigerian property whom I person been pleading with to carnivore with maine for months pursuing assurances by the NWC that a due fund for the media was underway volition beryllium compelled to presume that I person been lying to them each the clip and presumption maine arsenic a liar who cannot beryllium trusted.

“That would consequently permission maine successful the lurch and marque maine look incapable of the bureau thrust connected me.

“The fund-yourself enactment argumentation asserted by the unnamed authoritative gives emergence to respective aching questions:

“Which governmental party’s nationalist representation shaper and publicity mouthpiece successful the past of Nigeria funded their party’s nationalist publicity responsibilities solely from their backstage income, particularly an absorption governmental enactment striving to instrumentality retired and regenerate a gigantic, incumbent octopus dictatorship similar the 1 presently successful Nigeria?

“Assuming that Nigeria’s superior metropolis were Maiduguri, from our National Chairman to the slightest subordinate of the NWC arsenic composed, which authoritative would relocate to Maiduguri, wage his flights, full accommodation, regular upkeep, gathering attendances and multi-faceted media conferences/publicity bills for adjacent conscionable 1 month, and judge that helium oregon she is moving for a liable governmental enactment and cause?

“As I obse...