18th August, 2015
Jethro Ibileke/Benin
Ahead of its state congress scheduled to hold later this year, Edo State chapter of Labour Party (LP) Tuesday elected a nine-man Caretaker Committee to pilot the affairs of the party.
National Deputy Chairman (South-South) of the party, Bobo Atari-Adoy, who inaugurated the Committee at the party’s secretariat in Benin, disclosed that following the expiration of the state exco of the party, the national exco has received series of petitions from the state, hence the decision to constitute the caretaker committee.
He charged the committee “to oversee the affairs of the party in the state and to organise the state congresses” and make the party one that will take over the state in 2016.
“We should not be seen as appendage to any political party. We don’t want to see ourselves as working for ‘X’ party, we need to liberate ourselves and the liberation starts now,” Atari-Adoy said.
He thereafter handed the committee the 2014 Constitution of the party to guide them in their operation.
In his acceptance speech, Chairman of the Committee, Comrade Sam Omokaro, who affirmed that the committee has a huge task ahead of it to discharge within a short time, however said the committee has outlined an achievable agenda to help it discharge its mandate.
He listed the agenda to include “to bring back the old members and recruit new ones; sourcing for governorship candidate as Edo state prepare for governorship election” and to “conduct congresses in wards, local government and state in line with the directives of the national exco.”