{"id":88071,"date":"2023-05-15T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/labour-party-crisis-close-ranks-party-bigger-than-individual-cnpp-tells-factions"},"modified":"2023-05-15T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:38:11","slug":"labour-party-crisis-close-ranks-party-bigger-than-individual-cnpp-tells-factions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-close-ranks-party-bigger-than-individual-cnpp-tells-factions","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party crisis: Close ranks, party bigger than individual \u2013 CNPP tells factions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) on Sunday, called on warring factions in the ongoing Labour Party (LP) leadership crisis to \u201cfind common ground and sustain its new position as a third force in the current national politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, the umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in Nigeria noted that \u201cthere is nothing unusual about a political party having a leadership tussle or any form of disagreement, but its ability to close ranks and make compromises in the interest of the party is paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consequently, the CNPP urged \u201cthe parties in the leadership crisis to always remember that no individual\u2019s desire is bigger than party\u2019s interest\u201d, saying that \u201cif Labour Party leaders allow external forces to control its internal affairs, the party will be the loser, especially with its new found love with majority of the Nigerian youth population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continuing, the CNPP stated that \u201cEvery political party at one time or the other gets enmeshed in leadership crisis due to conflicts of interests. However, it is the responsibility of the fathers of the party to rise to the occasion and ensure that the fortunes of the party is not adversely affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall interests of a political party must be paramount at all times as power can only be shared when it is taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the buildup to the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had a taste of such internal crisis, which eventually affected its outing in the last general elections very negatively.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the party is currently entangled in its own clash of interests over what certain interests in the party see as arbitrary micro-zoning of elective positions in the 10th National Assembly to individuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is therefore incumbent on a political party\u2019s fathers to weigh options and rise up to the responsibility of cushioning the impact of whatever internal conflicts that may arise without allowing external influences to drive its affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the Labour Party went into the 2023 general elections without deliberately healing its internal grievances, which initially led to the setting up of a Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmid the then budding crisis in the party, Labour Party had constituted two committees- a disciplinary committee to handle Ogun State Executive crisis and another tagged the Labour Party Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee (LPSPCRC) to handle every other matter that has to do with \u2018grievances and mischief within the party\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is then very obvious that the current crisis stems from the inability of the National Executive Committee (NWC) of the party, which constituted the eleven eminent members Committee headed by Chief Friday Toyin Ibadin, to resolve the then brewing crisis despite having a single term of reference \u2018to reconcile all aggrieved members with the aim of a common front to win the 2023 general elections and Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed becoming the President and Vice President of Nigeria\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is therefore expedient that the party elders return the warring parties to the path of reconciliation as the current rigid approach to the conflict resolution will most likely tear the party apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been observed that both parties in the leadership conflict have turned the ongoing Presidential Election Petition before the tribunal as their major area of propaganda, whereas the provisions of the law are clear on withdrawal of such petitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Electoral Act 2022 under \u2018Withdrawal and Abatement of Petition\u2019, reads, Section 29. (1): An election pe\u00adtition shall not be withdrawn without leave of the tribunal or court. (2) Where petitioners are more than one, no appli\u00adcation for leave to withdraw the election petition shall be made, \u2018except with the con\u00adsent of all the petitioners\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CNPP, therefore, advises the warring factions in the ongoing Labour Party leadership crisis to pursue common grounds for reconciliation rather than resorting to the deployment of propaganda tools, using the election petitions at various Election Petition Tribunals across the country, as baits to gain support\u201d, the CNPP stated.<\/p>\n

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