The Labour Party, now Nigeria's third-largest party, also expelled some of the party's leaders............
The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party deepened on Tuesday as it suspended a factional leader, Lamidi Apapa, its National Deputy Chairman and some other officials.
Also in attendance at the Asaba meeting were state chairpersons and secretaries of the party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.members-elect, officials of INEC, those of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress , the statement read. It added that the NEC constituted a disciplinary committee comprising the National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu; Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, and Acting National Legal Adviser, Edun Kehinde, as members.
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