The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lekki division, Barrister Ayodele Ademiluyi has disclosed his plans to leave the Labour Party (LP), citing some unpalatable developments.
Barrister Ademiluyi made the disclosure in a press release issued from the Office of Honourable Ayodele Ademiluyi dated July 20, 2023.
Ademiluyi regretted that since its inception, the Party is fond of giving its tickets to the highest bidders, leaving revolutionary fighters like him out to dry.
He said:
“The significant conclusion to draw from my ordeal is the fact that the Labour Party bureaucracy aided by an obnoxious electoral law which confers monarchical powers on the National Chairman and National Secretary of the Party to depose to a mere affidavit 7 days to an election the names of its candidates has always for the past 20 years of its existence given the juicy tickets of the Party such as my ticket to the highest bidders and not resolute revolutionary fighters like myself, who refuse to play ball.
“As a crystal clear revolutionary socialist, I will find it more and more difficult as days go by to explain how the Labour Party in Parliament and places of the elected State Government acts in line with the ruling class and not in line with the mandate of a “New Nigeria” thrusted upon it by Nigerians.
“To further show that the Labour Party is not ready to depart from its trajectory of handing out party tickets to the highest bidder is the sale of the Nomination Forms for Surulere Federal Constituency By-election at 5 million naira each.
“In actual fact, it took a lot of uproar before the 35 million Naira nomination form fee for Imo Gubernatorial Primaries was reversed to 15 million naira.
“Both 15 million naira and 5 million naira are far above the minimum wage which remain a ludicrous 18,000 naira.
“It is clear and express that rank and file working class elements cannot stand and win in the Primaries of the Party in the coming period .
“However, as things stand today in the Labour Party, the old leopard has not changed its dark spots. It is bazaar “ad infinitum”.
“What is needed today in Nigeria is a clear-cut fighting revolutionary working class political party that not only stands on the ballot but also at the barricades for ordinary workers and youth, firmly standing on a socialist programme.
“The Labour Party is none of this.”
Having said that, Ademiluyi, therefore, said he came to the inevitable conclusion to leave the Labour Party after the battle for the recovery of his mandate has reached a brick wall and the apparatuses of the Party remains in the hands of the right-wing. Read more.
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