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Kayode Ajulo, Mimiko’s Lackey In Labour Party, Resigns As National Secretary

December 9, 2015

On Tuesday, Olukayode Ajulo, the National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), tendered his resignation letter amidst crisis purportedly rocking the national leadership of the party.

On Tuesday, Olukayode Ajulo, the National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), tendered his resignation letter amidst crisis purportedly rocking the national leadership of the party.

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In the letter, which was addressed to the Party’s National Chairman Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, Mr. Ajulo, a constitutional lawyer, claimed he submitted his resignation in order to concentrate fully on his career as a solicitor.

A source informed SaharaReporters that due to Mr. Ajulo’s resignation the Labour Party is swimming in a “crisis”.

“All is not well in the party, many of our members are at loggerheads. Some are even ready to move out,” the source said.

Mr. Ajulo, a lackey to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, emerged as the National Secretary of the Labour Party in October 2014 at a congress meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), held in Akure, the State capital.

The meeting, fully sponsored by Governor Mimiko, was embroiled in a crisis as delegates kicked against the emergence of some of the Party’s leaders including that of Kayode Ajulo who had been riding on the back of the Governor without the proper conduct of an election.

In July 2015, there was a crisis between Mr. Ajulo and Mr. Abdulsalam, when the former issued a statement on behalf of the Labour Party calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to set up an inclusive government.  However, the leadership of the Party was quick to react by distancing itself over the statement.

Mr. Abdulsalam described Mr. Ajulo’s statement as ‘his personal opinion’ and disowned the National Secretary after stressing that there was no reason the Labour Party would join any inclusive government of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“The statement credited to our National Secretary is quite embarrassing and is taken very seriously by the LP. He spoke for himself; it is not the position of the party. For any policy statement of that nature to come out from the party, it must come from either the chairman or publicity secretary,” the statement signed by Mr. Abdulsalam read.

It was gathered that since the lingering crisis both leaders have been at each other’s throat over largess that comes from Governor Mimiko, a well-known sponsor of the Party.

Several sources in the Labour Party told SaharaReporters described Mr. Ajulo’s leadership style as “dominating” comparing it to the administration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

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