Kogi State Gubernatorial Election: Labour Party Refutes Claim 21 LG chairs Joined Apc

The Labour Party in Kogi State has denied rumors that 21 local government chairmen switched from the party to the APC, which is currently in power.

Idakwo Emmanuel, the Labour Party's state publicity secretary, made this announcement to the media on Friday in Lokoja.

The party's governorship candidate, Barrister Adejoh Okeme, has no intention of collapsing his structure for any opposition party, he claimed, calling the reports false and deceptive.

"How can the same set of 21 LGA chairmen decamp to APC three times, with the same people in the photos making the rounds?" He asked.

Continuing, Emmanuel said, "some time ago, before the presidential election, we saw such rumour making the rounds, last month the same rumour, and just yesterday we have the same set of individuals in photos making such rounds.

"In Kogi State today, the only news both the ruling party APC and other political parties have to put out is that either a group of Obidient movement is giving them support or members of Labour Party is decamping to their party.

"This is the only selling point of political parties in Kogi State, and this is because they know that Labour Party movement is organic and set to librate the good people of the state."

He emphasized that the Labour Party is concentrated on topics that would protect the state's good citizens.

He asserts that propaganda and false information are being used by the state's ruling party as well as other opposition parties to mislead and divert party members, sympathizers, and members of the public.

"Barrister Adejoh Okeme has his eyes fixed on the goal of restructuring the state and no level of propaganda will stop us from moving this state from consumption to a productive and prosperous state.

"Labour Party agenda is void of ethnicity and religious differences, and for a fact, a productive Kogi is possible and achievable with the mandate of OkemeHamza," he stated.