Anambra Government seals-off Labour Party office in Awka

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By Alphonsus Nweze, Onitsha

The Anambra State Government has sealed -off the Labour Party office in Awka, Anambra State.

The Secretary of the party in the State, C.J. Okoli Akirika said the action which was carried out today was done without notice, warning, nor any form of engagement with the Labour Party.

The agents of the Anambra State Government accompanied by men dressed in soldiers’ uniform, according to Akirika, stormed the Labour Party Anambra State Office and “in a maniacal, frenzied and frenetic commando like operation, chased away the staff and sealed the office”.

The secretary who described the action as “rather unfortunate, bizarre, and brazen” said 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
L G election, is now mindlessly resorting to underhand, illegal and obnoxious intimidation”.

While appealing to teeming Labour Party members, supporters, sympathisers, stakeholders and Ndi Anambra in general, Akirika said “the State Leadership of our great Labour Party shall, as law abiding Anambrarians have recourse to due process to contain and checkmate this unprovoked and untrammelled illegality”