By Chris Ochayi

ABUJA— A FACTION of the Labour Party, LP, has disagreed with the former National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, over his reasons for handing over of the Certificate of Registration of the party to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, describing the action as contemptuous.

The faction’s  lawyer, Chief Chukwuma Ekomaru, SAN, said in a letter addressed to the factional President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, that the receipt of the certificate was faulty as it had been reported missing by Nwanyanwu when he resigned from the party before the 2015 general elections to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ekomaru in the letter dated July 31, told Wabba that the party on November 19, 2014 had sued those parading themselves as the National Caretaker Committee of the party with same Nwanyanwu being the fourth claimant in the suit pending before a Federal High Court Abuja and which hearing had been adjourned by the court till September 30, 2015.

The letter said, “We are to inform you that before now the Labour Party had reported to the Police that their certificate of registration is missing because Dan Nwanyanwu after leaving the party told the National Chairman of the party that the certificate of registration was missing. In the build up to political activities leading to the 2015 General Elections, Nwanyanwu, for reason very personal to him left the Labour Party and joined the presidential campaign team of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“The whole world by your press coverage on both electronic and print media on July 30, 2015 is now aware that the NLC factional president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, is now in custody of the certificate of registration of the Labour Party. What Nwanyanwu handed over to you yesterday (Thursday) as the certificate of registration of labour party is a stolen property because Nwanyanwu is no longer a member of Labour Party.”

Addressing newsmen on the matter in Abuja,  factional National chairman of the party Alhaji Abdulkadir AbdulSalam, lamented that Nwanyanwu who organised the National Convention that brought the present leadership, NWC, of the party would be the one to try to destroy it.