Nigeria: Speakership - Labour Caucus Leader, Hon. Ogene, Says Party Hasn't Endorsed Any Aspirant

8 May 2023
Leadership (Abuja)

The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader.

Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja.

Although 34 members-elect of the party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables Oke-Joe Onuakalusi, Obi Aguocha and Professor Lilian Oby Irogbu abstaining, being persons who conducted the exercise.

Speaking after the exercise, conducted under a convivial atmosphere, the duo of Honourables George Ozodinobi and Dennis Agbo, who contested the position, lauded the choice of Hon. Ogene.

Describing Hon. Ogene as a team player who is vast in the politics of the House of Representatives, Hon. Agbo opined that "with Hon. Ogene as our Caucus Leader, Labour Party is sure to hold it's own in the 10th Assembly."

In an acceptance speech soon after he was presented to the Party's Leader and Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, and the party's National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, Hon. Ogene assured that in all undertakings of the Members-Elect, the well-being of the Nigerian people would be uppermost.

"May I use this opportunity to reiterate that the Labour Party caucus, House of Representatives, has not endorsed any Speakership aspirant.

"In fact, anyone desirous of our votes on the day of inauguration must first convince us, as a bloc, of what his plans and programmes for the Nigerian people are. While we may have individual preferences, I can assure that at the end of the day, the Labour Party shall stand as one, indivisible entity to take a common and progressive stand," Hon. Ogene said.

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