Senator Neda Imasuen, representing Edo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has set a poser over an uncertain future of Labour Party, ahead of 2027 general elections.
This followed the sack of the LP former national chairman, Julius Abure by the Supreme court in pursuit of his own priorities over the interest of the party.
Senator Imasuen made this remark while briefing Correspondents’ Chapel members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council at the weekend in Benin City.
The chairman of Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges, lamented over missed opportunities for action that could have averted the defection of some LP leaders and members to the All Progressives Congress.
He noted that Abure who was the chairman of Labour Party at the time, in his own opinion really didn’t have “the party at heart because it became a personal thing”, especially during the tussle by some actors to “tear the party apart instead of preserving it”.
Senator Imasuen said “The question for me and for all of us, now, is where do we go from here? Someone spoke with me on the matter early this morning. And I said, ‘I just hope that it’s not a little too late of what has just come up, because the Labour Party is almost decimated’.”
“Most of the members have gone. Will this judgement bring them back? I don’t know. Will it energize those who are there now? Again, I don’t know. So, one time we’ll talk”, he stated.
Senator Imasuen expressed concerns over the horse-trading by some maverick politicians from the Northern part of Nigeria against a Southern President, ahead of 2027 general elections over the perceived harsh policies of President Bola Tinubu.
He insisted that the power rotation between the North and South after Eight years subsists irrespective of deliberate attempts by certain policies to downplay on it.
He wondered why proponents of single tenure in office for President Bola Tinubu, backed Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election despite the side-rocking economic policies of that government, are seeking to thwart existing political structure in the government of Tinubu whom he claimed performed better than his successor.
“The arrangement whether written or unwritten is that the North will do 8 years and the South will do 8 years. And so that is the battle, that is where they will be faced with the roadblock.
“At some point they will are agree with themselves and said let the South just its finish its 8 years and let them it take years. So that’s my take on it. I don’t worry about it because it’s an arrangement that is spoken or unspoken”, according to Imasuen.
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