The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra state yesterday assumed a new and dangerous dimension, when some unidentified gunmen allegedly stormed the venue of a scheduled state executive meeting in Awka.
The party chairman, Comrade Jude Ezenwa told journalists that heavily armed men had arrived the party office in an open van with about 8 gun men and drove his executive away from the meeting under gunpoint.
Expressing his disgust over the development, the chairman appealed to security operatives in the state to rise up to the occasion and arrest those responsible as he would not like to take laws into his hand.
Ezenwa said he had already briefed the party’s lawyers to take the matter up with the police.
Meanwhile, after regrouping at a new location, the party at their crucial meeting denied the identity and sincerity of a splinter group in the party led by one Chief Basil Iwuoba.
The party declared that Iwuoba and his co-travellers were well-known political merchants and agents of destabilization. That they were never registered members of the party in any of the 326 electoral wards in the state as members of the party.
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