By Praise Chinedum
Executive officers of the Labour Party (LP), in Onitsha North and Ogbaru council areas of Anambra state have unanimously assured their determination to work towards actualizing governorship aspiration of Chief Dr George Moghalu ahead of November 8, 2025 election.
The stakeholders gave the assurance during the meeting at the LP state secretariat in Awka while interfacing with Moghalu, over internal crisis reportedly rocking the party at the two local government areas.
They urged the Guber faithful to intervene and help solve various problems within the party in the council areas, and also to call certain erring stakeholders to order.
John Okechukwu Balapo, who spoke on behalf of the party in Onitsha North, complained that executive officials at the local government and ward levels in the local government area were schemed out of the party’s primary election that took place on April 5.
Balapo, who described Moghalu as a “good market” for the governorship, expressed worry, and asked Dr. Moghalu, as leader of the party in Anambra, to do everything possible to ensure that such thing did not continue.
Spokesperson of the LP in Ogbaru, Comrade Okoye Chukwuebuka, who is also the Welfare Officer of the party in the council area pleaded with Dr. Moghalu to intervene in the crisis, so that every member of the party would be happy, and together, the party would go into the November 8 governorship election united.
Responding, Moghalu, who said that crisis is inevitable in any human organization, asked his audience to be patient, while assuring that he would make efforts to mend fences and unite the party, not only in Ogbaru and Onitsha North, but also in the entire state.
He also assured that he would approach the stakeholders allegedly erring in their actions and inactions to ensure that everybody is in one page.
Moghalu also clarified that non participation of LP executive officers in the April 5, 2025 primary election of the party, was a fault of the party’s constitution, which, according to him, recognized adhoc delegates, as against automatic delegates recognized by constitutions of some other political parties.
According to Moghalu, the LP constitution demands that for anyone to be a delegate for a primary election, he must stand for an election, irrespective of the position such person is occupying in the party.
He begged everyone to have that understanding, while assuring that he is ready to carry everybody along, and that everyone takes his rightful place and plays his rightful role in the party.
He also promised that during his local government tour, he would have better opportunity to meet with wards and local government officers, as well as relevant stakeholders.
