From Ifeoma Ejiofor
Anambra State government has sealed off the Labour Party (LP) office in Awka, the state capital.
In a sharp reaction to the development, the Secretary of the Labour Party in the state, C.J. Okoli Akirika said the action was carried out without notice, warning, or any form of engagement with the Labour Party.
He said agents of the Anambra State Government, accompanied by men dressed in military uniforms, stormed the Labour Party Anambra State office and chased away the staff and sealed the office.
“It is rather unfortunate, bizarre, and brazen that the Anambra State Government, which is fruitlessly seeking to truncate statutorily emplaced procedures to select Local Government Chairmen and councillors in the deviously convoluted LG election, is now mindlessly resorting to underhand, illegal, and obnoxious intimidation.
Akirika appealed to the teeming Labour Party members, supporters, sympathisers, stakeholders, and Ndi Anambra in general, the state leadership of our great Labour Party not to be perturbed by development.
He assured that LP as law-abiding political party have recourse to due process to contain and checkmate what he called unprovoked and untrammelled illegality.
The Anambra State Commisioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu could not pick his call when our correspondent called him for clarification over the development.
